Xiaolan Gu

TL;DR: More than adequate or excessive iodine intake may lead to hypothyroidism and autoimmune thyroiditis in cohorts from three regions with different levels of iodine intake.

TL;DR: High iodine intake was a risk factor for developing hypothyroidism in antibody-positive subjects and a constant exposure to excessive iodine intake increased the incidence of positive TgAb.

TL;DR: Evaluated whether the status of iodine nutrition influences the TSH concentration in a selected Chinese reference population according to the criteria proposed by National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and regular thyroid ultrasonography to establish a new reference interval of TSH based on the wide variation of iodinenutrition in populations.

TL;DR: Serum Tg in adults, resulting from a time-accumulative effect of iodine exposure, is a useful biomarker of regional iodine intake through a 5-year cohort study conducted in China from 1999 to 2004.

TL;DR: Long-term smoking could increase the prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies in a population with mildly deficient iodine intake and TSH levels were lesser in smokers than in non-smokers and greater in subjects with thyroidAutoantibody positivity than in seronegative subjects.