Iodine as essential nutrient during the first 1000 days of life

Nutrients

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Velasco, Inés ^a   Bath, Sarah C ^b   Rayman, Margaret P ^b  

^a Hospital Comarcal de Riotinto   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural disorders; Deficiency; Foetal programming; Iodine; Neurodevelopment

Indexed keywords

IODINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODINATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LANGUAGE DELAY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; BRAIN CORTEX; DEFICIENCY; INFANT; METABOLISM;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; INFANT; IODINE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 85042787861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu10030290     Document Type: Review

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