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Tanzania national survey on iodine deficiency: impact after twelve years of salt iodation

BACKGROUND: In many low-income countries, children are at high risk of iodine deficiency disorders, including brain damage. In the early 1990s, Tanzania, a country that previously suffered from moderate to severe iodine deficiency, adopted universal salt iodation (USI) as an intervention strategy, b...

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Autores principales: Assey, Vincent D, Peterson, Stefan, Kimboka, Sabas, Ngemera, Daniel, Mgoba, Celestin, Ruhiye, Deusdedit M, Ndossi, Godwin D, Greiner, Ted, Tylleskär, Thorkild
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19728863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-319