Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Are thyroid stimulating hormone levels in cord blood influenced by non-thyroidal mothers ' diseases?
Answer: Our results indicate that primary TSH screening programs using cord blood are not affected by maternal diseases. We suggest that, besides its technical advantages over heel punctures with T4 primary approaches, neonatal screening using primary cord blood TSH may also be used as a monitoring tool for evaluation and control of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD).
Output (English): no