ea0029p1642 | Thyroid (non-cancer) | ICEECE2012
Lv S.
, Xu D.
, Wang Y.
, Du Y.
, Jia L.
, Chong Z.
, Ma J.
, Zhao J.
Introduction: Excessive iodine intake can cause iodine overnutrition, goiter and other thyroid disease. This study is to probe the determinants of childrens iodine nutrition and their goitrous and nodular prevalence in areas with excessive iodine in drinking water in Hebei province of China. Methods Three townships were selected by simple random sampling among the 8 townships with median water iodine being 200300 μg/l in Hengshui prefecture of Hebei province. ...