S Y Hess1, M B Zimmermann. 1. The Laboratory for Human Nutrition, Institute of Food Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The determination of goiter prevalence in children by thyroid ultrasound is an important tool for assessing iodine deficiency disorders. The current World Health Organization/International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (WHO/ICCIDD) normative values, based on thyroid volume in iodine-sufficient European children, have recently been questioned, as thyroid volumes in iodine-sufficient children from the USA and Malaysia are smaller than the WHO/ICCIDD reference data. Our objective was to describe ultrasonographic thyroid volumes in a representative national sample of iodine-sufficient Swiss school children, and to compare these with the current reference data for thyroid volume. DESIGN AND METHODS: A 3-stage, probability proportionate-to-size cluster sampling method was used to obtain a representative national sample of 600 Swiss children aged 6-12 years. The following data were collected: thyroid size by ultrasound, urinary iodine concentration, weight, height, sex and age. RESULTS: The median urinary iodine concentration (range) of the children was 115 microgram/l (5-413). Application of the WHO/ICCIDD thyroid volume references to the Swiss children resulted in a prevalence of 0%, using either age/sex-specific or body surface area (BSA)/sex-specific cut-off values. Upper limits of normal (97th percentile) of thyroid volume from Swiss children calculated using BSA, sex and age were similar to those reported in iodine-sufficient children in the USA, but were 20-56% lower than the corresponding WHO/ICCIDD references. CONCLUSIONS: Swiss children had smaller thyroids than the European children on which the WHO/ICCIDD references are based, perhaps due to a residual effect of a recent past history of iodine deficiency in many European regions. However, there were sharp differences between our data and a recent set of thyroid volume data in Swiss children produced by the operator and equipment that generated the WHO/ICCIDD reference data. This suggests that interobserver and/or interequipment variability may contribute to the current disagreement on normative values for thyroid size by ultrasound in iodine-sufficient children.
OBJECTIVE: The determination of goiter prevalence in children by thyroid ultrasound is an important tool for assessing iodinedeficiency disorders. The current World Health Organization/International Council for the Control of IodineDeficiency Disorders (WHO/ICCIDD) normative values, based on thyroid volume in iodine-sufficient European children, have recently been questioned, as thyroid volumes in iodine-sufficient children from the USA and Malaysia are smaller than the WHO/ICCIDD reference data. Our objective was to describe ultrasonographic thyroid volumes in a representative national sample of iodine-sufficient Swiss school children, and to compare these with the current reference data for thyroid volume. DESIGN AND METHODS: A 3-stage, probability proportionate-to-size cluster sampling method was used to obtain a representative national sample of 600 Swiss children aged 6-12 years. The following data were collected: thyroid size by ultrasound, urinary iodine concentration, weight, height, sex and age. RESULTS: The median urinary iodine concentration (range) of the children was 115 microgram/l (5-413). Application of the WHO/ICCIDD thyroid volume references to the Swiss children resulted in a prevalence of 0%, using either age/sex-specific or body surface area (BSA)/sex-specific cut-off values. Upper limits of normal (97th percentile) of thyroid volume from Swiss children calculated using BSA, sex and age were similar to those reported in iodine-sufficient children in the USA, but were 20-56% lower than the corresponding WHO/ICCIDD references. CONCLUSIONS: Swiss children had smaller thyroids than the European children on which the WHO/ICCIDD references are based, perhaps due to a residual effect of a recent past history of iodinedeficiency in many European regions. However, there were sharp differences between our data and a recent set of thyroid volume data in Swiss children produced by the operator and equipment that generated the WHO/ICCIDD reference data. This suggests that interobserver and/or interequipment variability may contribute to the current disagreement on normative values for thyroid size by ultrasound in iodine-sufficient children.
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