Sea water desalination: A newly discovered cause of iodine deficiency

Birth Defects Research

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 971-972

  Boroje, Isabella J ^a,b   Koren, Gideon ^c   Lamm, Steven H ^a,d,e  

^a Center for Epidemiology and Environmental Health   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DRINKING WATER; IODINE; MAGNESIUM; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROGLOBULIN; TRACE ELEMENT;

BRAIN DAMAGE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DESALINATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC GOITER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IODINATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD; DEFICIENCY; ISRAEL; SALINITY;

CHILD; HUMANS; IODINE; ISRAEL; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

EID: 85051416680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24721727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdr2.1337     Document Type: Editorial

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