Background: Maternal Iodine Deficiency Disorder can
result in inevitable cretinism as well as miscarriages, stillbirth and low
birth-weight babies. Objective: There is a need to find out contributing factors towards
urinary iodine concentrations of pregnant women. Methods: Therefore, the
cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted to assess the 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 Pa-Nga village and Kalokepi village in Thanbyuzayat township
were asked by using structured questionnaires including age, parity,
socioeconomic status and patterns of salt and iodine-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 th
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