[Iodine prophylaxis and the health status of infants of the first year of life, living in a mild iodine-deficiency industrial megapohs].

Adequate iodine prophylaxis in women living in an iodine-deficiency region, startingfrom early pregnancy, positively affects its course and in their babies' neonatal period, somatic and psychoneurological status (increased the mean neuropsychological status by 4-5 scores, by Improving the parameters of cognitive functions). This necessitates the use of potassium iodine agents in a dose of at least 200 fig/day, as recommended by the WHO (2001), in all early pregnancy women living in an iodine-deficient region.