Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Iodine nutrition is critical for human health. In recent years the main focus was on the developing brain during pregnancy. In addition, iodine nutrition is essential for growth and development during adolescence. Iodine nutrition was recently low within the recommended range among adult Faroese living on local, iodine-rich marine food items. Dietary habits among young generations are drifting away from local foods, and this raises a concern that led us to perfor...

Introduction: Iodine is essential for thyroid funciton and severe deficiency adversely affects the developing brain. A raised and sufficient intake is particularly important during the pregnancy. Iodine sources include sea foods and sea salt, and it is available as a dietary supplement. The former was previously important to the Faroses diet but the intake of traditional Faroses foods is decreasing with at likely parallel influence on the iodine intake. Currently, there is no ...