Women who find themselves pregnant should start using iodized salt because iodine is essential for neurological development of the fetus. The latest findings in a study published in the scientific journal Lancet.Since the beginning of pregnancy must begin to use iodized salt. A is recommending Stefano Bianchi, chief of obstetrics St. Joseph Hospital in Milan and professor at the University of the city of Milan.
"Iodine is essential for the proper functioning of the maternal thyroid and for the proper development of the fetal thyroid - White explains in the book on pregnancy from mother to mother. Thyroid hormones are essential for neurological development of the fetus and in particular in the early stages of brain development.
And 'as also confirmed by a study by the University of Surrey, just published in the journal Lancet , which highlights the need for women planning to become pregnant or are discovered waiting for a child to assume an appropriate amount of iodine from food , but without the extras that could lead to an overdose. Iodine deficiency in pregnancy, the study argues, can result in a slowdown of mental development of the unborn child, which lasts until at least ten years of life.
The researchers analyzed the urine of more than a thousand mothers by determining the concentration of iodine, and dividing them according to the instructions of WHO among those with an optimal value, greater than 150 micrograms per gram, and those with a deficiency, below this threshold. The children of the women surveyed were subjected to an IQ test to eight years and reading to nine.
"Children born to women with iodine deficiency - the authors write - were significantly more likely to have other scores below average, and once broken the group we have verified that the lower the concentration was lower the average scores obtained by children" .
"Iodine is essential for the proper functioning of the maternal thyroid and for the proper development of the fetal thyroid - White explains in the book on pregnancy from mother to mother. Thyroid hormones are essential for neurological development of the fetus and in particular in the early stages of brain development.
And 'as also confirmed by a study by the University of Surrey, just published in the journal Lancet , which highlights the need for women planning to become pregnant or are discovered waiting for a child to assume an appropriate amount of iodine from food , but without the extras that could lead to an overdose. Iodine deficiency in pregnancy, the study argues, can result in a slowdown of mental development of the unborn child, which lasts until at least ten years of life.
The researchers analyzed the urine of more than a thousand mothers by determining the concentration of iodine, and dividing them according to the instructions of WHO among those with an optimal value, greater than 150 micrograms per gram, and those with a deficiency, below this threshold. The children of the women surveyed were subjected to an IQ test to eight years and reading to nine.
"Children born to women with iodine deficiency - the authors write - were significantly more likely to have other scores below average, and once broken the group we have verified that the lower the concentration was lower the average scores obtained by children" .
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