Thyroid status two decades after salt iodization: Country-wide data in school children from India

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 905-910

  Marwaha, Raman K ^a   Tandon, Nikhil ^b   Garg, M K ^c   Desai, Ankush ^b,d   Kanwar, Ratnesh ^a   Sastry, Aparna ^a   Narang, Archna ^a   Arora, Saurav ^a   Bhadra, Kuntal ^a  

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

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c ARMY HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND REFERRAL   (India)

^d GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODINATION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID GLAND; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GOITER; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HUMANS; INDIA; IODINE; MALE; SCHOOLS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84860179065     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04307.x     Document Type: Article

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