Table 1.

Percentage of iodine deficiency in human subjects by age group and gender. In accordance with the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations¹⁹, the urine samples with I<50µg/L and I/SCN< 3µg/mg represent iodine deficiency.

	Boys					Girls
	I<50µg/L		I/SCN<3µg/mg			I<50µg/L		I/SCN<3µg/mg
Age group (y.o.*)	n	#	%	#	%	n	#	%	#	%
3–5	9	2	22	2	22	11	2	18	3	27
6–9	21	6	29	5	24	19	3	16	2	11
10–13	22	5	23	4	18	18	3	17	3	17
14–19	6	1	17	3	50	14	3	21	2	14
Total	58	14	24	14	24	62	11	18	10	16

y.o., years old