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Incommensurability of human hair and whole blood iodine

Hair iodine is reliable bio-indicator of human body iodine status. Lack of iodine is one of the most common endemic diseases in the- developed and un- derdeveloped world today. We analyzed the iodine content in the hair (H-I) and whole blood (WB-I) in the prospective, cross- sectional, observational, and epidemiological study. Hair was analyzed in 246 sub-jects (men 90, women 156). In 137 of ali the subjects (51 men, 86 women) iodine was detected simultane- ously in both of the biological indicator tissues. The respective hair and whole blood iodine common me-dian was H-Inl37 = 0.501, WB- Inl37 = 0.052 \xg/g look-ing separately men and women H-I medians were 0.511 and 0.500 whereas their respective WB-I medians were 0.050 and 0.057 jag/g. Apparently, there was no gender dependent difference between the hair and whole blood iodine medians. The short time indicator of the whole blood iodine is not commensurable with the long term biological indicator of the iodine status. Hair iodine analysis was superior to the whole blood analysis in assessing the iodine body status.

iodine ; gender ; hair ; whole blood ; hair iodine ; iodine nutritional status

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