Deficiency and excess of groundwater iodine and their health associations

Both iodine deficiency and excess could cause thyroid disorders. By creating a national map of groundwater iodine throughout China, the authors reveal the spatial responses of diverse health risks to iodine in continental groundwater.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ruoqi Ma, Mingquan Yan, Peng Han, Ting Wang, Bin Li, Shungui Zhou, Tong Zheng, Yandi Hu, Alistair G. L. Borthwick, Chunmiao Zheng, Jinren Ni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35042-6