Evaluation of median urinary iodine concentration cut-off for defining iodine deficiency in pregnant women after a long term USI in China

The WHO/UNICEF/ICCIDD define iodine deficiency during pregnancy as median urinary iodine concentration (MUIC)  ≤ 150 μg/L. China implemented universal salt iodization (USI) in 1995, and recent surveillance show...

Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - September 9, 2019 Category: Nutrition Authors: Huidi Zhang, Meng Wu, Lichen Yang, Jinghuan Wu, Yichun Hu, Jianhua Han, Yunyou Gu, Xiuwei Li, Haiyan Wang, Liangkun Ma and Xiaoguang Yang Tags: Research Source Type: research