%0 Journal Article
%T Salt Consumption Patterns and Iodine Nutrition Status of Pregnant Women in Coastal Region
%A Moh Moh Hlaing
%A Mya Ohnmar
%A Sandar Tun
%A Thidar Khine
%A Theingi Thwin
%J Food and Nutrition Sciences
%P 28-36
%@ 2157-9458
%D 2021
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/fns.2021.121003
%X Background: Maternal Iodine Deficiency Disorder can
result in inevitable cretinism as well as miscarriages, stillbirth and low
birth-weight babies. Objective: There is </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">a </span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">need to find out contributing factors towards
urinary iodine concentrations of pregnant women. Methods: Therefore, the
cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted to assess t</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">h</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">e patterns of salt utilization and iodine status of
pregnant women living in coastal areas of Mon State in January and May, 2013.
Result: A total of 144 pregnant women from </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Pa-Nga</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> village and </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Kalokepi</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> village in Th</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">anbyuzayat</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> township
were asked by using structured questionnaires including age, parity,
socioeconomic status and patterns of salt and iodine</span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">rich foods (seaweed, fish,
prawn) consumption. Casual urine samples were collected from each pregnant
woman and urinary iodine concentrations were measured. Three samples each of
the iodized salt and non-iodized salt from local markets were collected for
determination of iodine content by the iodometric titration method. Only 83.3%
of the study population consumed iodized salt and t</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">h</span></span></span></span><span
%K Salt Consumption
%K Iodine Nutrition
%K Pregnant Women
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=106587