Mild Iodine Deficiency During Pregnancy Can Harm The Baby’s Neurological Development
Children who did not receive enough iodine in the womb performed worse on literacy tests as 9-year-olds than their peers, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Iodine is absorbed from food and plays a key role in brain development…
May 2, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: clinical, clinical-endocrinology, endocrine-society, enough-iodine, journal, key-role, literacy-tests, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, pregnancy / obstetrics, recent-study, womb
