Urinary iodine excretion is a good marker of the dietary intake of iodine and is the index for evaluating the degree of iodine deficiency, correction and toxicity. Previous studies on urinary iodine excretion measured in school children in Saki showed that iodine deficiency was still endemic. The current iodine status in the area has not been evaluated, thus this study. Random urinary iodine wa...

OBJECTIVE The potential effects of four interventions to improve iodine intakes of six New Zealand population groups are assessed. DESIGN A model was developed to estimate iodine intake when (i) bread is manufactured with or without iodized salt, (ii) recommended foods are consumed to augment iodine intake, (iii) iodine supplementation as recommended for pregnant women is taken and (iv) the l...

Dietary iodine requirements are increased in pregnancy due to increased thyroid hormone production, increased renal iodine losses, and fetal iodine requirements. Adverse effects of iodine deficiency in pregnancy include maternal and fetal goiter, cretinism, intellectual impairments, neonatal hypothyroidism, and increased pregnancy loss and infant. Dietary iodine requirements remain increased in...

PURPOSE High atomic number (Z) materials have been considered as a method for enhancing radiation dose in tumors. The dose enhancement due to interactions of kilovoltage x-rays with high-Z materials (i.e., gold or iodine) has been well demonstrated through computational works. This study is to experimentally quantify the effect using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and iodine solutions, respectively...

INTRODUCTION Iodine is essential for the production of thyroid hormones. In pregnancy, physiological changes occur that can lead to iodine deficiency and impairment of fetal neurological development. We aimed to assess the iodine intake in pregnant women in Eastern Denmark, compare iodine levels in Eastern and Western Denmark and to identify potentially vulnerable groups. METHODS This was a c...

Introduction: A low iodine diet (LID) is recommended prior to the Radioactive Iodine-131 (RAI) treatment or scanning in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) post total thyroidectomy. However, recommended strictness of LID is varying among major guidelines. This study was aim to investigate the patient’s compliance to LID by measuring the urinary iodine level post LID. <...

radioactive iodine therapy is commonly used as an adjuvant therapy in follicular and papillary thyroid carcinoma and also in the treatment of graves’ disease. the basis of which is the accumulation of radioactive iodine by the sodium-iodide symporter (nis) in the thyroid gland. expression of nis by extrathyroidal tissues including islets of pancreas has been reported. radioactive iodine uptake ...

As intra-thyroidal iodine stores should be maximised before conception to facilitate the increased thyroid hormone production during pregnancy, women who are planning to become pregnant should ideally consume 150 μg iodine/d (US RDA). As few UK data exist for this population group, a cross-sectional study was carried out at the University of Surrey to assess the iodine intake and status of wome...

Different strategies have been developed to ensure a better iodine supply for man. The most common one is the iodisation of salt, but since the application is voluntary, it has not been effective enough. There still is a mild to moderate deficiency in the iodine intake of man of about 30 % in Germany [2, 6, 8]. Another strategy to fight iodine deficiency is to supplement animal feed with iodine...