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Prevalence of goiter and urinary iodine status of 7-11-year-old children in Malatya province, Turkey
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Mücahit Eğri1, Nihayet Bayraktar2, İsmail Temel2, Cihan Ercan1, Mehtap Ilgar1, Erkan Pehlivan1, Leyla Karaoğlu1, Gülsen Güneş1, Metin Genç1
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1Departments of Public Health, Inönü University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey
2 Departments of Biochemistry, Inönü University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey
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Eğri M, Bayraktar N, Temel İ, Ercan C, Ilgar M, Pehlivan E, Karaoğlu L, Güneş G, Genç M. Prevalence of goiter and urinary iodine status of 7-11-year-old children in Malatya province, Turkey. Turk J Pediatr 2006; 48: 119-123.
Goiter prevalence and urinary iodine excretion levels were assessed in 568 schoolchildren (317 boys and 251 girls), aged 7-11 years, living in the Malatya province, a well-known endemic goiter area in Turkey. Five hundred sixty-eight children aged 7-11 years consented to thyroid gland palpation and provided a urine sample on the day of examination in April 2004.
Median urinary iodine concentration for the total group was 66 µg/L. There was an association between presence of goiter or not and urinary iodine levels (67 µg/L versus 62 µg/L, p=0.000). The median urinary iodine concentration was lower in rural areas than in urban areas (54.6 µg/L versus 59.7 µg/L, respectively) and schoolchildren living in rural areas had significantly lower urinary iodine levels (p=0.000). In conclusion, the present study reports mild iodine deficiency in the Malatya province, despite a mandatory iodization program in Turkey which has been in force since 1998.
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