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Knowledge and awareness about and use of iodised salt among students in Germany and Greece [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Abstract Background Iodine is an essential trace element, which is important for human metabolism, growth and mental development. Iodine deficiency may still occur in Europe and the use of iodised salt is an effective measure to enhance iodine intake.
Katharina Heimberg +9 more
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Iodisation of Salt in Slovenia: Increased Availability of Non-Iodised Salt in the Food Supply [PDF]
Nutrients, 2016 Salt iodisation is considered a key public health measure for assuring adequate iodine intake in iodine-deficient countries. In Slovenia, the iodisation of all salt was made mandatory in 1953. A considerable regulatory change came in 2003 with the mandatory iodisation of rock and evaporated salt only.
Katja Žmitek, Igor Pravst
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Modelling the contribution of iodised salt in industrially processed foods to iodine intake in Macedonia [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2020 AbstractEvidence from the 1950s showed that Macedonia was iodine deficient. After the introduction of mandatory universal salt iodisation, the country saw a steady increase in iodine intake and decline in goitre prevalence, earning iodine-deficiency free status in 2003.
Neda Milevska-Kostova +4 more
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Should both iodised and non-iodised salt be made available in Chinese cities? A cross-sectional survey [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2014 ObjectiveTo contribute evidence relevant to the policy of supplying iodised salt (IS), non-iodised salt (NIS) or both in Chinese cities.DesignSubnational telephone interview survey.SettingChina.ParticipantsTotally, 24 557 telephone numbers were dialled and 4833 citizens accepted the telephone interview.
Jingcui Yu +4 more
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What is the availability of iodised salt in supermarkets on the Island of Ireland? [PDF]
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2019 Iodine deficiency remains a global nutritional public health challenge, with evidence suggesting borderline adequate or even deficient status for UK and Irish subpopulations such as schoolgirls and pregnant women. The solution, according to the WHO, is salt iodisation, but it is not known how widely available iodised salt is in supermarkets.
Mark Shaw +9 more
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Iodised salt contribution to iodine nutrition status of pregnant and lactating women [PDF]
British Journal of Nutrition, 2015 Sufficient iodine intake by pregnant and lactating women is crucial to their offspring's cognitive development. The aim of the present study was to explore the impact of iodised salt intake on the iodine status of pregnant and lactating women.
Zhang, Haihong +6 more
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Iodine status among pregnant women after mandatory salt iodisation [PDF]
British Journal of Nutrition, 2015 AbstractI is essential for thyroid hormone synthesis and neurological development. Various changes occur in thyroid hormone metabolism during pregnancy and I requirements increase significantly. The purpose of this study was to investigate I status among pregnant women in Trabzon, formerly a severely I-deficient area but shown to have become I ...
Murat Topbaş +4 more
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Iodine content of salt 2 years after the introduction of the universal salt iodisation legislation in Lesotho [PDF]
British Journal of Nutrition, 2005 The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of the universal salt iodisation legislation on I levels of salt at household, retail and entry level in Lesotho. We used a multistage proportion to population size method to select thirty-one clusters from all the districts and ecological zones of Lesotho.
Masekonyela Linono Damane Sebotsa +3 more
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Iodine nutrition status among schoolchildren after salt iodisation
Ceylon Medical Journal, 2009 Earlier studies done in Sri Lanka have indicated the importance of iodine deficiency as a public health problem. The universal salt iodisation programme has been implemented since 1995. The goals of salt iodisation are reduction of the goitre rate to 90% of households using iodised salt.To estimate the goitre prevalence, the urinary iodine level, and ...
Dulitha N. Fernando +2 more
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The prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis after universal salt iodisation in Sri Lanka
Ceylon Medical Journal, 2012 Sri Lanka is endemic for goiters. Iodine deficiency is thought to be the main cause. The global iodisation programme was implemented in the country in 1995. Several studies done in school children have shown a reduction in the goiter prevalence (3.8%) in the initial post iodisation period.
Pramodh Chandrasinghe +2 more
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