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, are among the vulnerable groups and are estimated to have insufficient intake of iodine from the total school-age children, 58 million of them are living in African ( 11 ). The global control of iodine deficiency through a universal salt iodization
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recommend salt iodination as a safe, cost-effective, and sustainable strategy to meet iodine requirements [ 6 ], and a recent Cochrane review validated this upon showing that supplementation with iodized salt (IS) was an efficient way to improve iodine
inexpensively be prevented by iodine fortification, usually by provision of iodized salt. More specifically, iodized salt should replace non-iodized salt in nearly all food production, at least in areas where fortification would not increase risk of excessive
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recommend increasing iodine intake from 150 µg to 250 µg in pregnant mothers [ 4 , 5 ]. Under iodine replete conditions, this requirement can usually be met from normal foodstuffs, particularly if salt is iodized. However, as salt iodization is not always
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achieving adequate iodine intake in populations is that salt iodization is the key strategy [ 5 ]. Supplements should only be the solution when salt iodization fails. This is in line with the general recommendations given by Geoffrey Rose [ 36 ] when
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gestation. This simply requires substituting all household salt, and that available to domestic animals, with iodized salt, containing 1.34 μg KI/kg salt. The misnamed ‘sporadic' cretins, on the other hand, identified by neonatal screening programs
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. Today, despite increased salt iodization programs on a global scale, approximately 2 billion people worldwide are classified as having ‘iodine’ deficiency and about 50 million develop clinical symptoms ( 3 ). Changing dietary habits worldwide are partly
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Granada. He completed his doctoral thesis on the administration of iodized salt in the iodine-deficient region of Alpujarras under the mentorship of Prof. Ortiz de Landazuri. From then on, his scientific career has been inseparable from that of his wife
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]. After a revision of this recommendation, it was proposed to use UIC as the primary indicator of the impact of iodine supplementation, and the household coverage with iodized salt as a secondary indicator [ 5 ]. Three Hungarian cities (Csákvár in West
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fortifying table salt, staple foods and livestock feed. However, challenges remain, particularly in Europe, due to fragmentation and diversity of approaches. To the extent that regular programmes exist at all, iodine fortification may be based on the
