BACKGROUND The production of iodine-containing thyroid hormones necessary for brain development in the fetus depends not only on maternal dietary intake but also on placental iodine transport. The optimum level of iodine nutrition during pregnancy and the proportion of the pregnant population reaching this level have previously been evaluated. Little information exists on the ability of the pla...

Background and objectives: Thyroid hormone exercises vital role in the event of development of central nervous system in stage of fetal life, childhood, and maintains tropic action in adulthood and also in aging. Deficiency in thyroid hormones responsible for impairment of mental performance. Inadequate iodine intake was is the major health problem. Use of iodized salt is now in vogue globally ...

BACKGROUND To assess accessibility of iodinated salt and urinary iodine concentrations (UIC) during pregnancy. This cross-sectional study was carried out between October and December, 2009 in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan (WA), Iran. METHODS Data on demographic characteristics and iodinated salt accessibility were gathered through a questionnaire at 1st trimester. Household salt samples and u...

Fortification with the essential trace element iodine is widespread worldwide. In the present study, results on iodine excretion and intake of iodine-rich foods from a cross-sectional study carried out in 2004-5, 4 to 5 years after the implementation of mandatory iodine fortification, were compared with data in a study carried out in 2008-10. The 2008-10 study was a follow-up of a cross-section...

The iodine content of several kinds of foods representing different product groups available on the Swiss market was analyzed by isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using the enriched long-lived nuclide I. Considerable variations in levels of iodine between single foodstuffs within food groups were found, which also applied for levels in different food groups. The cont...

The paper presents the latest information on iodine content in raw milk, in the Czech Republic. In 2005, iodine was determined using the Sandell-Kolthoff method in 169 milk samples, taken from transportation tanks (capacity 11 000–13 000 litres) of collecting milk for dairy processing, from 14 areas of South-western Bohemia. The average iodine content in milk samples was 442.5 ± 185.6 μg/l, min...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the extent to which increase in iodine requirement was achieved in pregnant women who attended the antenatal clinic at Harare Central Hospital. DESIGN Cross sectional. SETTING Samples were collected from pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Harare Central Hospital, and from lactating mothers and their infants. SUBJECTS 100 pregnant women attending the antenat...

to its glycoside (arachidoside) content. On the basis of in creased excretion of phenols in the group of rats fed arachi doside, and of an increased iodine content in the phenolic fraction of the urine as compared with the control, it was sug gested that this glycoside acted as an antithyroid compound by forming molecular compounds with elemental iodine in the gland. Confirmatory evidence for t...

Iodine requirements increase during pregnancy and lactation due to increased maternal thyroid hormone production and iodine excretion, fetal iodine requirements, and loss of iodine in breast milk. Seaweed preparations are a source of dietary iodine. Korean and many Korean-American women traditionally consume brown seaweed soup (Undaria pinnatifida) daily during the early postpartum period (Supp...