Iodine nutrition--more is better.

Psychomotor Abnormalities and Decreased Intelligent Quotient in School Children of Iodine Deficient Areas Near Tehran

SUMMARY In order to evaluate psychomotor activity and intelligent quotient in schoolchildren of iodine deficient region, 95 children from Kiga and 103 from Keshar villages and 73 from Razi school in Tehran were studied. In Kiga there is moderately severe iodine deficiency with retarded physical growth and decreased thyroid function. These students had more errors in Bender-Gestalt (BG) test an...

Prevention of Iodine Deficiency: Difficult to Implement, More Difficult to Sustain

Iodine deficiency disorders in Bangladesh, 2004-05: ten years of iodized salt intervention brings remarkable achievement in lowering goitre and iodine deficiency among children and women.

A survey was conducted to monitor the current status of iodine deficiency disorders in children aged 6-12 years and women aged 15-44 years in Bangladesh as measured by goitre prevalence and urinary iodine excretion. Conducted between September 2004 and March 2005, the survey followed a stratified multistage cluster sampling design to provide nationally representative data, with self-weighted ru...

Iodine: it's important in patients that require parenteral nutrition.

Iodine deficiency has multiple adverse effects on growth and development because of inadequate thyroid hormone production. Four methods are generally recommended for assessment of iodine nutrition: urinary iodine concentration, thyroid size, and blood concentrations of thyroid-stimulating hormone and thyroglobulin. Iodine intakes < or = 1 mg/d are well tolerated by most adults, because the thyr...

The prevalence of iodine deficiency in women of reproductive age in the United States of America.

OBJECTIVE To review the iodine status of women as assessed through National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1971 to 2002. DESIGN AND SETTING National normative estimates of iodine status of the civilian, non-institutionalized population in the United States of America. SUBJECTS Women of reproductive age and pregnant women. RESULTS In the United States of America, iodine bega...

Goiter Prevalence, Urinary Iodine and Thyroid Function Tests in Inhibitants of Tehran City

Introduction: As the production, distribution and consumption of iodised salt has increased in recent years, this study was carried out to monitor the IDD control program in Tehran, in 1996.   Methods:1146 families comprising 5140 subjects intwenty districts of Tehran City from all age groups were randomly selected. Thyroid size was examined by palpation and graded according to WHO classifica...