The iodine-selenium connection: its possible roles in intelligence, cretinism, sudden infant death syndrome, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
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Several diseases and disorders display spatial patterns that suggest the involvement of both selenium and iodine deficiencies, or excesses, in their etiologies. It is suggested that many of these similarities in geographical distribution occur because both elements influence thyroid hormone metabolism.
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Nutritional epidemiology and thyroid hormone metabolism.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical hypotheses
دوره 40 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993