Monitoring iodine following consumption of iodized salt in Tehrani inhabitants

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 65-69

  Salarkia, Nahid ^a,c   Azizi, Fereidoun ^b   Kimiagar, Masood ^a   Zakeri, Hamid ^d   Soheilikhah, Sedigheh ^d   Nafarabadi, Mahtalat ^d  

^a National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute Tehran   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Research Institute   (Iran)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Iodine deficiency; Iodized salt; Thyroid hormones; Urinary iodine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034026976     PISSN: 03009831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0300-9831.70.2.65     Document Type: Article

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