Urinary iodine concentration identifies pregnant women as iodine deficient yet school-aged children as iodine sufficient in rural Niger.
Sonja Y HessCesaire T OuédraogoRebecca R YoungIbrahim F BambaSara StincaMichael B ZimmermannK Ryan WessellsPublished in: Public health nutrition (2016)
In this region of Niger, most salt is inadequately iodized. UIC in pregnant women indicated iodine deficiency, whereas UIC of school-aged children indicated marginally adequate iodine status. Thus, estimating population iodine status based solely on monitoring of UIC among school-aged children may underestimate the risk of iodine deficiency in pregnant women.