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The role of iodine in human growth and development.

Michael B. Zimmermann
- 01 Aug 2011 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 6, pp 645-652
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Iodine prophylaxis of deficient populations with periodic monitoring is an extremely cost effective approach to reduce the substantial adverse effects of iodine deficiency throughout the life cycle.
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This article is published in Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 295 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Iodine deficiency & Cretinism.

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2014 European Thyroid Association Guidelines for the Management of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy and in Children

TL;DR: This guideline has been produced as the official statement of the European Thyroid Association guideline committee and indicates that targeted antenatal screening for thyroid function will miss a substantial percentage of women with thyroid dysfunction.
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The role of nutrition in children's neurocognitive development, from pregnancy through childhood

TL;DR: This review examines the current evidence for a possible connection between nutritional intake (including micronutrients and whole diet) and neurocognitive development in childhood and concludes that malnutrition can impair cognitive development, whilst breastfeeding appears to be beneficial for cognition.
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Risk Factors for Childhood Stunting in 137 Developing Countries: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis at Global, Regional, and Country Levels.

TL;DR: FGR and unimproved sanitation are the leading risk factors for stunting in developing countries and reducing the burden of stunting requires a paradigm shift from interventions focusing solely on children and infants to those that reach mothers and families and improve their living environment and nutrition.
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Benefits of Docosahexaenoic Acid, Folic Acid, Vitamin D and Iodine on Foetal and Infant Brain Development and Function Following Maternal Supplementation during Pregnancy and Lactation

Nancy L. Morse
- 24 Jul 2012 - 
TL;DR: Maternal supplementation within recommended safe intakes in populations with dietary deficiencies may prevent many brain and central nervous system malfunctions and even enhance brain development and function in their offspring.
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Changes of event related potential and cognitive processes in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism after thyroxine treatment.

TL;DR: SH patients had significantly longer P3 wave latency in ERP examination as compared to healthy individuals which gives evidence for impaired cognitive functions in SH patients.
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Effects of maternal iodine supplementation during pregnancy.

TL;DR: In a double blind controlled trial in five villages in Papua New Guinea, several measures of motor and cognitive function showed no significant differences at either age 11 or 15 years between those children whose mothers had received supplementary iodine during pregnancy and the control children whose Mothers had received the placebo.
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Cellular approaches to central nervous system remyelination stimulation: thyroid hormone to promote myelin repair via endogenous stem and precursor cells

TL;DR: In this review, repair of demyelinating disease using endogenous cells will be discussed in view of the critical role played by thyroid hormones (THs) during developmental myelination, focusing on the following points.
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The effect of altered thyroid status on pituitary hormone messenger ribonucleic acid concentrations in the rat.

TL;DR: Studies of altered thyroid status in the rat reveal dose-response and time-course variability in the pretranslational control of TSH beta, alpha-subunit, GH, and PRL by thyroid hormone.
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