Systematic review of studies evaluating urinary iodine concentration as a predictor of 24-hour urinary iodine excretion for estimating population iodine intake

• Main Authors: Chen Ji, Tammy Lu, Omar Dary, Branka Legetic, Norm R. Campbell, Francesco P. Cappuccio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2015
• Subjects: Yodo; orina; toma de muestras de orina; población; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Ure
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/563e5eab95824ffb83513729e0a9c1ed

OBJECTIVE: To examine the usefulness of "spot" urine iodine concentrations (UICs) in predicting 24-hour urine iodine excretion (UIE) for estimating average population iodine intake. METHODS: An electronic literature search was conducted for articles published through 19 May 2013 in MEDLINE...