High iodine content of Korean seaweed soup: A health risk for lactating women and their infants?

Thyroid

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 927-928

  Rhee, Soo S ^a   Braverman, Lewis E ^a   Pino, Sam ^a   He, Xuemei ^a   Pearce, Elizabeth N ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

BREAST MILK; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GOITER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KOREA; LACTATION; LETTER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SALINITY; SEAWEED; THYROTOXICOSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GOITER; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODINE; KOREA; LACTATION; SEAWEED; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 79961189362     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2011.0084     Document Type: Letter

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