Benefits and risks from the national strategy for improvement of iodine nutrition: a community-based epidemiologic survey in Chinese schoolchildren

W Li, B Dong, P Li, Y Li - Nutrition, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Mild to severe iodine deficiency has been documented in China since 1960. To
eliminate this persisting iodine deficiency, legislation on universal salt iodization was …

Iodine nutritional status after the implementation of the new iodized salt concentration standard in Zhejiang Province, China

Y Zou, X Lou, G Ding, Z Mo, W Zhu, G Mao - BMC Public Health, 2014 - Springer
Background Iodine deficiencies were prevalent in China until the introduction of universal
salt iodization (USI) in 1995. In 2012, the standard salt iodine concentration was adjusted to …

An epidemiological survey of children's iodine nutrition and goitre status in regions with mildly excessive iodine in drinking water in Hebei Province, China

S Lv, J Zhao, D Xu, Z Chong, L Jia, Y Du, J Ma… - Public health …, 2012 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo identify children's iodine nutrition and goitre status in areas with mildly
excessive iodine in drinking water. DesignA cross-sectional survey. Probability proportional …

Iodine nutritional status in the adult population of Shandong Province (China) prior to salt reduction program

C Xu, X Guo, J Tang, X Guo, Z Lu, J Zhang… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Tremendous differences in iodine status and daily iodine intake persist across
provinces of China. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the iodine status and …

Iodine excess or not: analysis on the necessity of reducing the iodine content in edible salt based on the national monitoring results

S Li, Q Zheng, J Xu, J Gorstein… - Asia Pacific journal of …, 2011 - search.informit.org
Using national monitoring data collected between 1995 and 2009, this paper describes the
change in trend with regard to the coverage of qualified iodized household salt and iodine …

Iodine status of Taiwanese population in 2013: 10 years after changing from mandatory to voluntary salt iodization

FF Wang, KT Tang, WH Pan, JGS Won… - Food and nutrition …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In 2003, Taiwan's iodine policy changed from mandatory to voluntary. The
Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT) 2001-2002 for schoolchildren showed …

Control of iodine-deficiency disorders following universal salt iodization in Shenzhen, China, 1997–2011

W Huang, C Peng, H Huang, J Zhang… - Food and nutrition …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Since universal salt iodization (USI) was implemented in Shenzhen, China, in
1996, evaluation of the time trend of USI to indicate the control of iodine-deficiency disorders …

Progress in salt iodization and improved iodine nutrition in China, 1995–99

J Zhao, F van der Haar - Food and nutrition bulletin, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
In 1993, the State Council of China announced the policy to virtually eliminate iodine-
deficiency disorders (IDD) by 2000 and adopted universal salt iodization (USI) as the …

Iodine status of 8 to 10 years old children within 20 years following compulsory salt iodization policy in Shanghai, China

Z Wang, J Zang, Z Shi, Z Zhu, J Song, S Zou, W Jin… - Nutrition journal, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background In 1996, Shanghai implemented universal salt iodization and has
became the last provincial unit in China to carry out this intervention. In this study, we …

Iodine status of Taiwanese children before the change in national salt iodization policy: a retrospective study of the nutrition and health survey in Taiwan 2001-2002

KT Tang, WH Pan, FF Wang, JD Lin… - Asia Pacific journal …, 2014 - search.informit.org
Taiwan was an iodine deficiency area and endemic goiter was common in 1940's.
Mandatory salt iodization started in 1967, and a 1971 survey indicated that goiter rates in …