Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 1-11 , February 2010

Epidemiology of iodine deficiency: Salt iodisation and iodine status

  • Maria Andersson, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Human Nutrition Laboratory, Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, CH 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41 44 632 80 51; Fax: +41 44 632 1470.
    • ,
  • Bruno de Benoist, MSc, MD

      Affiliations

    • Route de Villars Dame, 1210 Versonnex, France
    • Tel.: +33 450 427929.
    • ,
  • Lisa Rogers, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
    • Tel.: +41 22 791 2111; Fax: +41 22 791 41 56.

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☆ Disclaimer: One of the authors (LR) are staff members of the World Health Organization. They alone are responsible for the views expressed in this publication and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the World Health Organization.

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2009.08.005

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