Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 20-24 , January 2005

Iodine status as determined by urinary iodine excretion in Lesotho two years after introducing legislation on universal salt iodization

  • Masekonyela Linono Damane Sebotsa, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Food and Nutrition Coordinating Office, Lesotho, South Africa
    • Department of Human Nutrition, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +27-21-938-0911; fax: +27-21-938-0321.
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  • André Dannhauser, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Nutrition, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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  • Pieter L. Jooste, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Nutritional Intervention Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
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  • Gina Joubert, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Received 13 April 2004 ,Accepted 27 July 2004.

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 This study was supported by the Food and Nutrition Coordinating Office, Lesotho, South Africa.

PII: S0899-9007(04)00217-5

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2004.09.005

Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 20-24 , January 2005

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