Current prevalence of goiter determined by ultrasonography and associated risk factors in a formerly iodine-deficient area of Turkey

Endocrine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 290-298

  Kocak, Mustafa ^a   Erem, Cihangir ^a   Deger, Orhan ^a   Topbas, Murat ^a   Ersoz, Halil Onder ^a   Can, Emine ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Public Health ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Associated risk factors; Former iodine deficiency; Goiter prevalence; Turkish population; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IODIZED SALT; SALT INTAKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GOITER; HOUSEWIFE; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SUPPLEMENTATION; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE AGED; SALT INTAKE; THERAPEUTIC USE; TURKEY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906940558     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12020-013-0153-2     Document Type: Article

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