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Determination of the daily dietary selenium intake in Croatia

Data about selenium concentrations in the environment and its daily dietary intake in Croatia are scarce. The aim of this study was to estimate daily dietary selenium intake in a group of female subjects from the Zagreb area using three different approaches: direct measurement of selenium in collected daily duplicate portions, daily dietary records and the indirect method of selenium analysis in serum. The results were 33.2 +/- 8.82, 30.9 +/- 7.40 and 37.8 +/- 5.45 mu g day(-1) (arithmetic mean +/- SD) by duplicate portion, daily dietary records and the serum selenium method, respectively. The results of dietary selenium intake estimation showed that selenium intake for the observed group of female subjects from Zagreb area is lower than in the majority of European countries, and lower than the value recommended by the World Health Organisation.

selenium; duplicate portion; dietary records; serum

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