MBL2 and thyroid gland disorder: Women, who had abnormal values of the thyroid parameters TPOAb and/or TSH in the first trimester of pregnancy, had significantly lower serum MBL levels (median: 3275 ng/ml), than a control group consisting of women without thyroid disease in pregnancy (5000 ng/ml; p<0.05), as shown in Fig. 1 and Table 1.