Iodine is a micronutrient needed for the production of thyroid hormones, which regulate
metabolism, growth, and development. Iodine deficiency or excess may alter the thyroid …

Context Adequate iodine intake is essential throughout life. Key dietary sources are iodized
salt and animal products, but dietary patterns in Europe are changing, for example toward …

Background: Knowledge about the population's iodine status is important, because it allows
adjustment of iodine supply and prevention of iodine deficiency. The validity and …

Background The habitual/usual iodine intake and the prevalence of iodine inadequacy may
be estimated from spot urinary iodine concentrations in cross-sectional studies by collecting …

Purpose The Swiss voluntary salt iodisation programme has successfully prevented iodine
deficiency for 100 years, but dietary habits are changing and today only one-third of …

Purpose Voluntary salt iodization at 50 mg/kg salt ensures adequate iodine nutrition in
Swedish school-aged children, but iodine status in pregnant women is uncertain. Methods …

Background Salt reduction campaigns without a parallel increase of iodine fortification will
lead to a worsened iodine status in countries with a relevant salt iodization. A decline in …

Objective: The monitoring of the populations' iodine status is an essential part of successful
programmes of iodine deficiency elimination. The current study aimed at the evaluation of …

Background: Despite the implementation of the universal salt iodization (USI) program for
correction of iodine deficiency in China for∼ 20 years, the actual iodine nutrition status of …

Abstract Purpose Pregnant women in Sweden are mildly iodine deficient. We investigated
the effect of daily iodine supplementation on the iodine and thyroid status of pregnant …