AIMS To evaluate the iodine status of patients in early pregnancy and its dependence on level of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). METHODS Between June 2005 and December 2006, 168 patients with a confirmed vital pregnancy (up to 10(th) week of pregnancy) were included in the study. The entry criteria were no prior thyroid disease, did not take any other medication, had not undergone radio-io...

BACKGROUND Iodine deficiency is a global public health problem, and estimates of the extent of the problem were last produced in 2003. OBJECTIVES To provide updated global estimates of the magnitude of iodine deficiency in 2007, to assess progress since 2003, and to provide information on gaps in the data available. METHODS Recently published, nationally representative data on urinary iodin...

Milk is the largest source of iodine in UK diets and an earlier study showed that organic summer milk had significantly lower iodine concentration than conventional milk. There are no comparable studies with winter milk or the effect of milk fat class or heat processing method. Two retail studies with winter milk are reported. Study 1 showed no effect of fat class but organic milk was 32.2% low...

TheNHANES 2003–2006 has assessed iron and iodine status, 2 trace element nutrients of continued public health interest, in the U.S. population. We investigated associations of sociodemographic (age, sex, race-ethnicity, education, income) and lifestyle (smoking, alcohol consumption, BMI, physical activity, dietary supplement use) variables with the iron status indicators serum ferritin, soluble...

BACKGROUND Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) are widespread in China. Presently, IDD have been put under control by Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) in China; however, there is a lack of evidence on whether the iodine status in adults, pregnant women and lactating women is optimal. This study was therefore conducted to assess the iodine nutrition and thyroid function of children, adults, pregnan...

Although pregnant women and some groups of reproductive-age women in the US may be at risk of iodine deficiency, data also suggest that iodine intake among many U.S. children may be above requirements. Our objective was to describe the association of iodine sources with iodine status among children. We analyzed 2007-2010 NHANES data of urine iodine concentration (UIC) spot tests for children ag...

The median urinary iodine concentration (UI) in school-aged children is recommended for assessment of iodine nutrition in populations. If the median UI is adequate in school-aged children, it is usually assumed iodine intakes are also adequate in the remaining population, including pregnant women. But iodine requirements sharply increase during pregnancy. In this study, our aim was to measure U...

Iodine deficiency remains a considerable challenge worldwide, even after decades of efforts to address the problem. The aim of this review is to present the current situation in historically iodine-deficient Pakistan regarding iodine nutritional status and place it in a global perspective. We collected relevant articles from online bibliographic databases and websites of concerned organizations...

This study was conducted in 2006 to assess the current iodine nutriure of the population in Haryana by assessing the urinary iodine excretion levels amongst the school age children between 6-12 years. Altogether 3,019 urine samples were collected from all the 19 districts in Haryana. The urinary iodine was analyzed by using wet digestion method. Less than 1 % of children had urinary iodine excr...

OBJECTIVES To assess current iodine levels and related factors among healthy pregnant women.  METHODS In this cross-sectional, hospital-based study, healthy pregnant women (n=135) were scanned for thyroid volume, provided urine samples for urinary iodine concentration and completed a questionnaire including sociodemographic characteristics and dietary habits targeted for iodine consumption at...