Prevalence of goitre and autoimmune thyroiditis in schoolchildren in Delhi, India, after two decades of salt iodisation

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 889-893

  Gopalakrishnan, Sripathy ^a   Singh, S P ^a   Prasad, Walia Ram ^a   Jain, Sushil Kumar ^a   Ambardar, Vinod Kumar ^a   Sankar, Rajan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Antithyroid antibodies; Autoimmune thyroiditis; Goitre; India; Iodine deficiency; Iodised salt

Indexed keywords

IODINE; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; GOITER; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INDIA; IODINATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SALT INTAKE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 33748440746     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPEM.2006.19.7.889     Document Type: Article

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