[HTML][HTML] Median urinary iodine concentration in Colombian children and women is high and related to sociodemographic and geographic characteristics: results from …

RJ Beer, OF Herrán, E Villamor - The Journal of Nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
… survey assessing the iodine status of the Colombian population; this study provides updated
mUIC estimates for Colombian children and women. Second, we examined iodine status …

Iodine Status in the Colombian Population and the Impact of Universal Salt Iodization: A Double‐Edged Sword?

H Vargas-Uricoechea… - Journal of nutrition …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
children having abnormal urinary iodine levels. These abnormal concentrations represented
both iodine … to excess iodine intake; specifically, 28.8% of the school children had urinary …

Characteristics of the high ioduria concentrations in schoolchildren and adolescents in Colombia

M Galindo, AY Forero… - Revista Peruana de …, 2021 - SciELO Public Health
… of iodine excess in Colombian schoolchildren and adolescent population was restated. This
study aims to describe the characteristics of elevated iodine concentrations … school children

Iodine nutrition improves in Latin America

EA Pretell, F Delange, U Hostalek, S Corigliano… - Thyroid, 2004 - liebertpub.com
… Surveys could not be arranged in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, or Uruguay. In each … on
reference values for thyroid volume in iodine-replete schoolchildren: Results of a workshop on …

[HTML][HTML] Population status of iodine and its potential effects on thyroid function and autoimmunity in Southwestern Colombia

H Vargas-Uricoechea, A Mera-Mamian… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… the iodine status and its potential effects on thyroid function and autoimmunity in Colombia.
… The population status of iodine in Colombia is U-shaped; the high prevalence of goiter, …

[HTML][HTML] Iodine deficiency in indigenous pregnant women in Colombia: an equity and public health concern

J Eslava-Schmalbach… - Revista Colombiana de …, 2021 - scielo.org.co
… En Colombia, históricamente se presentaron altas frecuencias de bocio endémico. Rueda-…
de la implementación formal de la yodización en Colombia, se reportaba una frecuencia de …

Iodine-sufficient goiter and autoimmune thyroiditis: The Kentucky and Colombian experience

E Gaitan - Frontiers in Thyroidology: Volume 1, 1986 - Springer
… Furthermore, we have constructed some family pedigrees of children with goiter from
Owsley County and Colombia. These pedigrees clearly indicate the familial nature of iodine-…

Association of salt iodization and urine iodine concentration in schoolchildren from public schools in northeast of Brazil

R de Oliveira Campos, SCR Lima… - … Trace Element Research, 2021 - Springer
… In addition, almost 86% of all children examined excreted more than 300 μg of iodine/L of …
Salt enrichment policies extend to other international territories, such as Colombia, where the …

Iodine deficiency and excess in children: worldwide status in 2013

MB Zimmermann - Endocrine practice, 2013 - Elsevier
iodine nutrition at the population level is usually done by measuring the urinary iodine
concentration (… , the objective of this review is to assess global and national iodine status in 2013. …

Comparison of median urinary iodine concentration as an indicator of iodine status among pregnant women, school-age children, and nonpregnant women

EM Wong, KM Sullivan, CG Perrine… - Food and Nutrition …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
… To assess whether the median urinary iodine concentration (UIC) of school-age children
or nonpregnant women can be used to accurately represent the iodine status of pregnant …