Can thyroid size still be considered as a useful tool for assessing iodine intake?

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 301-306

  Zygmunt, Arkadiusz ^a,b   Zygmunt, Agnieszka ^b   Karbownik Lewińska, Małgorzata ^a,b   Lewiński, Andrzej ^a  

^a POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Goitre; Iodine prophylaxis; Schoolchildren; Urine iodine concentration

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; IODURIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID WEIGHT; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THYROID GLAND; URINE;

BODY SURFACE AREA; CHILD; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODINE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ORGAN SIZE; POLAND; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 84930919472     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5604/12321966.1152084     Document Type: Article

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