Iodine Deficiency in Europe

Requirements of iodine in humans.- Sources of dietary iodine in industrialized countries.- The iodine deficiency disorders.- Control of thyroid growth.- Autoregulation of thyroid function by iodide.- Iodine kinetics in iodine deficiency.- Goitrogenesis in iodine deficiency.- Selenium, iodine, and the thyroid.- Thyroid dysfunction induced by excess iodine.- Iodine excess and thyroid autoimmunity.- Nutritional informations for the elimination of IDD in Europe.- Requirements for goiter surveys and the determination of thyroid size.- Biochemical evaluation of iodine status.- Status of iodine nutrition in the United States.- Iodine intake in Canada.- The status of iodine nutrition in Australia.- Status of iodine nutrition in Japan.- Iodine in the food chain.- Animal studies of iodized oils: Iodine disposition and physiological effects.- Feto-maternal thyroid hormone relationships in iodine deficiency: An experimental approach.- Thyroid regulation during pregnancy.- Goitre in pregnancy in Germany.- Neonatal thyroid function in iodine deficiency.- Congenital hypothyroid screening programs and the sensitive thyrotropin assay: Strategies for the surveillance of iodine deficiency disorders.- National program of iodine prophylaxis and neonatal thyroid function.- Consequences of iodine fall out: Dosimetric and radiobiological considerations.- Dietary iodine supply and radioiodine uptake: The case for generalized iodine prophylaxis.- Use of potassium iodide to minimize thyroid radiation from radioactive fall-out.- Iodization of salt and food. Technical and legal aspects.- Study of a system of continuous iodine release into water (RhodifuseR iode).- Iodine supplementation to a public water supply: An efficient method for correcting iodine deficiency.- Monitoring of programs of iodineprophylaxis in industrialized countries.- Implementation of iodine deficiency disorders elimination programs in Europe.- Urinary excretion of iodine in Norway.- The state of iodine nutrition in Sweden.- Present state of endemic goitre in Finland.- Iodine intake in Denmark — Influence on the pattern of thyroid disease.- Status of iodine deficiency in Ireland.- Status of iodine nutrition in the United Kingdom.- Iodine and goitre in The Netherlands. A role for nitrate pollution?.- Iodine deficiency diseases and interdisciplinary iodine prophylaxis in the Eastern part of Germany before and after the German reunification.- Present status of iodine deficiency in Poland.- Iodine deficiency disorders and endemic goiter in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).- Some problems of endemic goiter in Czecho-Slovakia yesterday, today and tomorrow.- Status of iodine nutrition and thyroid function in Belgium.- Goitre prevalence and salt iodization in France.- Status of iodine nutrition in Switzerland.- Status of iodine nutrition in Europe: National update, Austria.- Status of iodine nutrition in Hungary.- The status of iodine nutrition in Romania.- Endemic goiter in Portugal.- Iodine deficiency in Spain: Update of a widespread and persisting problem.- Status of iodine nutrition in Italy.- Endemic goiter in Croatia.- Status of iodine nutrition in Bulgaria.- Iodine nutrition and iodine deficiency disorders in Greece: Signs of improvement.- Endemic goiter and iodine deficiency in Turkey.- Abstracts of the poster presentation N° 1–37.- General Comments, Conclusions, and Final Recommendations.- Conclusions and Recommendations.- Speakers.- Discussants.- Author Index.