Urinary iodine concentrations indicate iodine deficiency in pregnant Thai women but iodine sufficiency in their school-aged children

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1169-1172

  Gowachirapant, Sueppong ^a,c   Winichagoon, Pattanee ^a   Wyss, Laura ^b   Tong, Bennan ^b   Baumgartner, Jeannine ^b   Melse Boonstra, Alida ^c   Zimmermann, Michael B ^b,c  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEA FOOD; THAILAND; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGY PHENOMENA; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THAILAND;

EID: 66749089793     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.100438     Document Type: Article

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