Ten repeat collections for urinary iodine from spot samples or 24-hour samples are needed to reliably estimate individual iodine status in women

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2049-2054

  König, Franziska ^a   Andersson, Maria ^a,c   Hotz, Karin ^a   Aeberli, Isabelle ^a,b   Zimmermann, Michael B ^a,c,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders   (Switzerland)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IODINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SAMPLE SIZE; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINARY IODINE; URINE LEVEL; URINE VOLUME;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 81055126834     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.111.144071     Document Type: Article

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