OBJECTIVE To determine iodine levels in salt and iodine deficiency prevalence in school-aged children in 16 districts in Tanzania with previous severe iodine deficiency. DESIGN A cross-sectional study in schoolchildren. Systematic probability sampling was used to select schools and subjects for goitre assessment and urinary iodine determination. SETTING Sixteen districts randomly selected f...

OBJECTIVE Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) are a major public health problem in India. The National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi is a known iodine deficiency endemic area. The Delhi Government banned the sale of non-iodised salt since 1989. The present study was conducted to assess the status of IDD after 7 years of salt iodisation programme in the state. DESIGN Cross sectional. METHOD...

Introduction: Kerman province was one of the Iran regions with endemic goiter. Following initiation of the program of iodine deficiency control in 1989, production, distribution and consumption of iodized salt were begun. This study was done in 2001, as part of the national monitoring survey, in Kerman. Method: In this study, 1200 schoolchildren, aged 7-10 years (600 boys & 600 girls), were sel...

In 1896 Drechsel demonstrated that the horny axial skeleton of the Mediterranean coral, Gorgonia cuvolinii, contains iodine in organic combination in a nitrogenous substance termed gorgonin by him. Hundeshagen (1895) had previously investigated an iodine-containing organic material which he separated from marine sponges; and later Harnack (1898) isolated from the same source a compound which he...

INTRODUCTION Consumption of low iodine salt can cause different types of disorders associated with iodine deficiency. This study aims to determine iodine content in table salt consumed in Lubumbashi and iodine status of pregnant women who are the main target of iodine deficiency. METHODS aAdescriptive cross-sectional study was devoted to an iodometric iodine analysis of 739 salt samples colle...

Objective. It has been testified that iodine regulates thyroid function by controlling thyroid-restricted genes expression and is closely related to diffuse goiter and thyroid dysfunction. However, the effects of follicular lumen iodine, the main form of iodine reserve in the body, on thyroid-restricted genes in nodular goiter are poorly understood. In this study, correlations between follicula...

conclusions the present study showed that the iodine concentration is not decreased during the heating process in sterilization, indicating that supplemented sterilized milk could be a good alternative vehicle for dietary iodine in the prevention of iodine deficiency. results the inclusion of ki in the diet of the dairy cows in these 2 separate experiments increased their milk iodine levels. pa...