The state of U.S. Iodine nutrition: how can we ensure adequate iodine for all?
The state of U.S. Iodine nutrition: how can we ensure adequate iodine for all?
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美国碘营养状况:如何确保所有人都有足够的碘?
DOI:
10.1089/thy.2013.0295
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2013
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Leung,AngelaM
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Pearce,ElizabethN;Leung,AngelaM
The report by Caldwell et al.(1) appearing in this issue of Thyroid has important implications for public health. It includes data from the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and pilot data from the National Children’s Study (NCS). Together, these provide the largest US sample of urinary iodine concentrations (UIC), a marker for population iodine status, in pregnant women. It is also the first US study to report trimester-specific and region-specific UIC measures. The overall US median UIC in 2009–2010 was 144 lg/L; while still in the optimal range, it has fallen from 164 lg/L in 2007–2008 and is the lowest value observed since NHANES began in the early 1970s. As in other recent NHANES analyses, UIC was lower in women of childbearing age than in other groups. The median UIC for US pregnant women in NHANES 2005–2010 was 129 lg/L, well below the 150 lg/L threshold advocated by the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) Global Network and the World Health Organization for pregnancy (2). Interestingly, median UIC values in pregnant women were low in the first and second trimesters, and normalized by the third trimester. More studies are needed to determine whether this is related to dietary changes, the addition of iodine-containing supplements relatively late in pregnancy, or other factors.Adequate dietary iodine intake is particularly important in pregnancy, since it is required for normal fetal neurodevelopment. It has been recommended that pregnant women should ingest 220lg iodine daily, higher than the 150 lg/d recommended for nonpregnant adults (3). A recent systematic review by Bougma and colleagues (4) concluded that iodine deficiency in utero or in early infancy results in a 6.9 to 10.2 point IQ decrement. A recent study in Tasmania examined educational outcomes in 9-year-old children in relation to their mothers’ pregnancy UIC values (5) and found that children of women with UIC< 150 lg/L had poorer spelling, grammar, and English literacy scores compared with those of women with UIC≥ 150 lg/L. Similarly, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) in the United Kingdom recently found that children of women with UIC values< 150 lg/g creatinine in pregnancy were at increased risk for low verbal IQ, reading accuracy, and reading comprehension scores at age 9 (6).