Present situation and prospects of the evaluation method on individual iodine nutrition / 中华地方病学杂志

ABSTRACT

With the improvement of people's consciousness on health and the increasing number of thyroid disease,the demand for individual evaluation on iodine nutrition is increasing.Strict iodine nutrition evaluation indexes include dietary iodine intake,serum iodine,thyroid iodine content,urinary iodine,and milk iodine.Generalized iodine nutrition evaluation indexes also include goiter,thyroid function,thyroid globulin,intelligence and so on.Thyroid function,serum iodine,urinary iodine,and food frequency questionnaire for individual iodine nutrition evaluation have advantages and disadvantages.The appropriate individual iodine nutritional evaluation method and the normal reference range need to be put forward.