Table 5.
Relative risk of iodine deficiency for common disease
| Symptom/ disease |
Adolescent girls | Pregnant women | All | ||||||||
| Iodine deficiency |
RRb |
Iodine deficiency |
RRb |
Iodine deficiency |
RRb |
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| (+) | (-) | (95% CI) | (+) | (-) | (95% CI) | (+) | (-) | (95% CI) | |||
| Fever | 23.5% | 22.5% | 1.1 (0.6–1.8) |
29.8% | 25.5% | 1.3 (0.7–2.2) |
26.3% | 23.7% | 1.1 (0.8–1.7) |
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| Cold/cough | 41.2% | 39.9% | 1.1 (0.7–1.6) |
34.6% | 32.5% | 1.1 (0.6–1.8) |
38.3% | 36.8% | 1.1 (0.8–1.5) |
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| Diarrhea/ dysentery |
2.9% | 3.7% | 0.8 (0.2–2.7) |
15.4% | 4.5% | 4.0c (1.6–10.3) |
8.3% | 4.0% | 2.2c (1.1–4.4) |
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| Vomiting/ abdominal pain |
14.7% | 13.8% | 1.1 (0.6–2.0) |
27.9% | 22.9% | 1.3 (0.7–2.3) |
20.4% | 17.6% | 1.2 (0.8–1.8) |
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| Pneumonia | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0 (NC)d |
1.0% | 0.6% | 1.5 (0.1–24.7) |
0.4% | 0.5% | 0.8 (0.1–8.6) |
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| Ear infection | 0.7% | 1.8% | 0.40 (0.1–3.4) |
1.0% | 0.6% | 1.7 (0.1–30.4) |
0.8% | 1.3% | 0.6 (0.1–3.4) |
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| Eye infection | 2.2% | 0.5% | 4.8 (0.5–47.1) |
1.0% | 1.3% | 0.9 (0.1–11.1) |
1.7% | 0.8% | 2.1 (0.5–9.4) |
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| Skin disease | 4.4% | 9.2% | 0.5 (0.2–1.2) |
4.8% | 7.0% | 0.7 (0.2–2.0) |
4.6% | 8.3% | 0.5 (0.3–1.1) |
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| Urinary tract infection |
5.1% | 6.4% | 0.8 (0.3–2.0) |
17.3% | 17.2% | 1.0 (0.5–1.9) |
10.4% | 10.9% | 0.9 (0.5–1.6) |
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a: reference category is ‘no deficiency’
b: Adjusted for age in adolescent girls, and for age and gestational age in pregnant women
c: p<0.05
d NC: not calculable