Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) known as coronavirus
disease (COVID-19), emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. On March 11, 2020, it …

Japanese iodine intake from edible seaweeds is amongst the highest in the world.
Predicting the type and amount of seaweed the Japanese consume is difficult due to day-to …

BACKGROUND To investigate the role of primary hypothyroidism (HYPT) on breast
carcinogenesis, the authors evaluated 1) the association between HYPT and a diagnosis of …

The term “thyrogastric syndrome” defines the association between autoimmune thyroid
disease and chronic autoimmune gastritis (CAG), and it was first described in the early …

To investigate the chemopreventive effects of seaweed on breast cancer, we have been
studying the relationship between iodine and breast cancer. We found earlier that the …

The role played in thyroid hormonogenesis by iodide oxidation to iodine (organification) is
well established. Iodine deficiency may produce conditions of oxidative stress with high TSH …

Iodine deficiency is an ongoing problem. The implementation of salt iodization has
significantly reduced the effects of iodine deficiency worldwide in recent years, and the …

The authors hypothesize that dietary deficiency or excess of iodine (I) has an important role
in oral mucosa and in salivary glands physiology. Salivary glands derived from primitive I …

Autoimmune atrophic gastritis is an organ-specific immune-mediated condition
characterized by atrophy of the oxyntic mucosa. Autoimmune atrophic gastritis (AIG) is …

It is hypothesized that dietary iodine deficiency is associated with the development of
mammary pathology and cancer. A review of the literature on this correlation and of the …