{"id":23107,"date":"2015-08-13T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=23107"},"modified":"2015-08-13T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:07:43","slug":"iodine-supplements-for-pregnant-women-urges-busms-pearce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/08\/13\/iodine-supplements-for-pregnant-women-urges-busms-pearce\/","title":{"rendered":"Iodine Supplements for Pregnant Women Urges BUSM&#8217;s Pearce"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23116\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/08\/COM-Pearce_Elizabeth-e1439495111381.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Pearce\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23116\" height=\"263\" width=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Pearce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A recent study in <em>The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology<\/em>, by researchers at the University of Birmingham in England has demonstrated that iodine supplementation for pregnant women in Great Britain could save money from both a health and societal perspective by raising IQ scores among newborns. In an accompanying editorial, BUSM\u2019s Elizabeth Pearce, MD, remarks that the study, which concluded that iodine supplementation could result in a net gain of 1.22 IQ points, demonstrated \u201cthe costs of inaction in terms of both economics and lost human potential.\u201d Current reliance on dietary iodine nutrition \u201cis not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She urges that food fortification strategies to increase the amount of iodine in food would take time to develop, but \u201ciodine supplementation is available now.\u201d She recommends \u201ciodine supplements for pregnancy and lactation\u201d as a priority. She also supports the \u201cdevelopment of a national plan to monitor urinary iodine concentrations in pregnant women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Katelyn Bird, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on a recent study in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, BUSM&#8217;s Elizabeth Pearce, MD, remarks that current reliance on dietary iodine nutrition \u201cis not working.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23121,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions\/23121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}