One in 2,000 babies in the UK are born with primary congenital hypothyroidism (CHT), which may result in intellectual disability.
Research was undertaken to see how different testing levels influenced the incidence of primary CHT. The results showed the UK screening programme for CHT was good, but a different test threshold may be better.
The data was extracted from the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU) and the UK Newborn Screening Laboratory Network (UKNSLN) 2011-2012, funded by Public Health England.
Click below to see how the study was undertaken and discover more detailed results:
- Newborn Screening for Primary Primary Primary Primary Congenital Hypothyroidism: Estimating Test Performance at Different TSH Thresholds | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism | Oxford Academic
- Newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism: performance and outcomes of the UK programme. | BSPED2017 | 45th Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes | Endocrine Abstracts
- P09 Initial diagnostic outcome of screening for congenital hypothyroidism after newborn bloodspot screening: a uk surveillance study | Archives of Disease in Childhood