ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2020
Iodine status of breastfed infants and their mothers' breast milk iodine concentration.
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- Dairy Intake and Iodine Status in Pregnant and Lactating Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Breast Milk Iodine Concentration (BMIC) as a Biomarker of Iodine Status in Lactating Women and Children <2 Years of Age: A Systematic ReviewNutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Iodine concentrations in human milk after maternal high therapeutic potassium iodide dosing during breastfeeding: a contribution from the ConcePTION project.Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism · 2026Article
- Enhancing human milk iodine concentration: a data-driven action plan for Latvia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Iodine Concentration in the Breast Milk and Urine as Biomarkers of Iodine Nutritional Status of Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants in Taiwan.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Infant iodine status and associations with maternal iodine nutrition, breast-feeding status and thyroid function.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Iodine: a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023.Food & nutrition research · 2023Article
- The Role of Iodine for Thyroid Function in Lactating Women and Infants.Endocrine reviews · 2022Review
- Iodine status of breastfed infants and their mothers' breast milk iodine concentration.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
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Abstract
Iodine is an essential nutrient for growth and development during infancy. Data on iodine status of exclusively (EBF) and partially breastfed (PBF) infants as well as breast milk iodine concentration (BMIC) are scarce. We aimed to assess (a) infant iodine nutrition at the age of 5.5 months by measuring urinary iodine concentration (UIC) in EBF (n = 32) and PBF (n = 28) infants and (b) mothers' breast milk iodine concentration (n = 57). Sixty mother-infant pairs from three primary health care centres in Reykjavik and vicinities provided urine and breast milk samples for iodine analysis and information on mothers' habitual diet. The mother-infant pairs were participants of the IceAge2 study, which focuses on factors contributing to infant growth and development, including body composition and breast-milk energy content. The median (25th-75th percentiles) UIC was 152 (79-239) μg/L, with no significant difference between EBF and PBF infants. The estimated median iodine intake ranged from 52 to 86 μg/day, based on urinary data (assuming an average urine volume of 300-500 ml/day and UIC from the present study). The median (25th-75th percentiles) BMIC was 84 (48-114) μg/L. It is difficult to conclude whether iodine status is adequate in the present study, as no ranges for median UIC reflecting optimal iodine nutrition exist for infants. However, the results add important information to the relatively sparse literature on UIC, BMIC, and iodine intake of breastfed infants.
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