Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Deficiency and excess of groundwater iodine and their health associations

  • Ruoqi Ma,
  • Mingquan Yan,
  • Peng Han,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Bin Li,
  • Shungui Zhou,
  • Tong Zheng,
  • Yandi Hu,
  • Alistair G. L. Borthwick,
  • Chunmiao Zheng,
  • Jinren Ni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35042-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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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.