Dried Blood Spot Thyroglobulin as a Biomarker of Iodine Status in Pregnant Women
Stinca, Sara ; Andersson, Maria ; Weibel, Sandra ; Herter-Aeberli, Isabelle ; Fingerhut, Ralph ; Gowachirapant, Sueppong ; Hess, Sonja Y. ; Jaiswal, Nidhi ; Jukić, Tomislav ; Kusic, Zvonko ; Mabapa, Ngoako Solomon ; Nepal, Ashwini Kumar ; San Luis, Teofilo O. L. ; Zhen, Jia Qing ; Zimmermann, Michael Bruce
In: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2016, vol. 102, no. 1, p. 23-32
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- DBS-Tg is a sensitive biomarker of iodine status in PW, the reference range in iodine sufficient PW is 0.3-43.5 μg/L and a median DBS-Tg <10 μg/L indicates iodine sufficiency in PW.