Moderate-to-severe iodine deficiency in the ''First 1000 Days'' causes more thyroid hypofunction in infants than in pregnant or lactating women

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 589-595

  Stinca, Sara ^a   Andersson, Maria ^a   Herter Aeberli, Isabelle ^a   Chabaa, Laila ^b,d   Cherkaoui, Mohamed ^c   Ansari, Nawal El ^b,d   Aboussad, Abdelmounaim ^b,d   Weibel, Sandra ^a   Zimmermann, Michael B ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHU Mohammed VI   (Morocco)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^d CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Breast milk iodine concentration; First 1000 days; Hypothyroidism; Iodine deficiency; Lactating women; Pregnant women; Thyroid stimulating hormone; Thyroxine; Urinary iodine concentration; Women of reproductive age

Indexed keywords

IODINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; INFANT; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LACTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOROCCO; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; THYROID FUNCTION; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DEFICIENCY; MALE; NEWBORN; THYROID DISEASES; URINE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODINE; LACTATION; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; PREGNANCY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 85020225258     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.116.244665     Document Type: Article

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