Mojgan Kaviani1, Majid Abdollahian2*, Hussein Nikroo3
Because of importance of the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has offered general plans to reduce the level of the disease through continuous measurement of iodine or goiter. This study has been conducted with the aim of controlling the iodine deficiency level among high school students of Khorramabad in 2016. 500 students in grade 1 of high school with mean age range of 13.70±0.79 year old and mean weight of 54.14±9.10kg were studied. The median of urinary iodine excretion in these students was obtained to 53.20µg/l with 0.54% with the limit of urinary iodine in range of 50-99µg/l. Analysis of the effect of studies variables on urinary iodine level showed that gender could be an effective factor on urinary iodine level and girls with 56% showed mild iodine deficiency compared to boys with 54%. The results showed that age is an effective factor in the level of iodine excretion in urine. Also, the iodine excretion level in 13-year old students (46%) was higher than students of age 12 (20%) and age 14 (34%). The iodine level showed no significant differences in ages of 13 and 14 (p>0.05). Moreover, the results obtained from this study show that the urinary iodine level is under effect of weight and students with mean weight of 50-59kg (37%) were the most people in limit of mild iodine deficiency. After this limit, the students with weight in range of 40-49kg (34%) and students below 40kg (11%) possessed rank 3. 56% of students were not suffering from goiter; 24% of them suffer from grade 1 goiter and 18% suffer from grade 2 goiter. The mean urinary creatinine in girls was equal to 0.13±0.92mg/dl and was equal to 0.96±0.17mg/dl in boys. Median of urinary creatinine was equal to 0.83mg/dl and people with mild iodine deficiency (50-99µg/l) to 277 people (54%) had 0.88mg/dl creatinine. The creatinine excretion was increased with increase in iodine deficiency
