Lebanese children are iodine deficient and urinary sodium and fluoride excretion are weak positive predictors of urinary iodine.
March 2017
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European Journal of Nutrition
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Ghattas H, Francis S, El Mallah C, Shatila D, Merhi K, Hlais S, Zimmermann M, Obeid O.
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56(2):749-755.
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