Thyroid volume and urinary iodine in school children and adolescents in Slovakia after 40 years of iodine prophylaxis

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 394-398

  Langer, P ^a   Tajtakova M ^a   Podoba, J ^a   Kost'alova L' ^a   Gutekunst, R ^a  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Endemic goitre; schoolchildren and adolescents; Slovakia; thyroid volume; urinary iodine

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; DATA ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC GOITER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THYROID GLAND; URINALYSIS; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; FEMALE; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HUMAN; IODINE; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; SLOVAKIA; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THYROID GLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028171552     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211310     Document Type: Article

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