Analysis of monitoring results in water-borne high iodine areas in Shanxi Province in 2020 / 中华地方病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the current situation of water-borne high iodine hazards in Shanxi Province and the implementation of prevention and control measures, providing a scientific basis for prevention and control of the high iodine hazards in the future.Methods:In 2020, a survey was conducted on iodine content of drinking water and water improvement situation in all high iodine administrative villages in 12 water-borne high iodine counties of 4 cities in Shanxi Province. In each monitoring county, five administrative villages were selected as monitoring villages using a systematic sampling method, sorted by the iodine content of the water in the administrative villages. Forty non-boarding students aged 8 - 10 from one primary school and 20 pregnant women were selected from each monitoring village. Household edible salt samples and one random urine sample were collected for salt iodine and urinary iodine content test. B-ultrasound method was used for thyroid examination in children.Results:A total of 297 high iodine administrative villages were surveyed on the drinking water situation of residents, including 268 villages with improved water and 29 villages without improved water, with a water improvement rate of 90.24%. The range of water iodine was 0.33 - 803.75 μg/L, and there were 159 villages with water iodine content > 100 μg/L. A total of 1 926 samples of household edible salt were tested, and the rate of non iodized salt was 62.20% (1 198/1 926); 1 704 urine samples from children and 222 urine samples from pregnant women were tested, with median urinary iodine contents of 426.2 and 318.9 μg/L, respectively. The 1 690 cases of thyroid gland in children were examined, with a goiter rate of 3.91% (66/1 690) and a nodule detection rate of 13.67% (231/1 690).Conclusions:Children's iodine nutrition in water-borne high iodine areas of Shanxi Province is at an iodine excess level, while pregnant women's iodine nutrition is at an iodine excess level. Efforts should be made to increase the popularization of non iodized salt and improve water quality to reduce iodine in areas with high iodine levels, in order to control the harm of high iodine in water sources as soon as possible.