Is dietary nitrate/nitrite exposure a risk factor for development of thyroid abnormality? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 65-76

  Bahadoran, Zahra ^a   Mirmiran, Parvin ^b   Ghasemi, Asghar ^a,c   Kabir, Ali ^d,e   Azizi, Fereidoun ^a   Hadaegh, Farzad ^f  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Goiter; Nitrate; Nitrite; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid function

Indexed keywords

IODIDE; NITRATE; NITRITE; THYROID HORMONE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COOKED FOOD; DIETARY INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RAW FOOD; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; DRUG EFFECTS; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; HUMANS; NITRATES; NITRITES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84928540989     PISSN: 10898603     EISSN: 10898611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2015.04.002     Document Type: Review

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