• 1.Department of General Surgery, NO. 303 Hospital of PLA, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,China;;
  • 2.Department of General Surgery, NO. 181 Hospital of PLA, Guilin 541000, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China;;
  • 3.Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Youjiang Medical College, Baise533000, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China;;
ZHANG Jiayue, Email: huangyonghong331@163.com
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Objective  To reveal the relationship between the iodine nutrition and the change of spectrum of thyroid
diseases by analyzing the change of spectrum of thyroid diseases in different iodine environments before and after the implementation of universal salt iodization (USI).
Methods  To compare the urinary iodine concentration between the normal people (1 000 cases) and the patients with thyroid diseases (5 998 cases) by surgical operations who were from 4 cities of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, covering the iodine deficient areas and the iodine rich areas.
Results  After the USI was put into practice, the proportions of nodular goiter decreased, but the proportions of toxic nodular goiter, thyroid papillary carcinoma, and Hashimoto thyroiditis were higher than those before USI (P<0.05). The urinary
iodine concentrations of nodular goiter, Graves disease, toxic nodular goiter, thyroid papillary carcinoma, and Hashimoto
thyroiditis were higher than those before the measure was taken (P<0.05). The urinary iodine concentration of patients with thyroid was higher than that of normal people (P<0.05), and the urinary iodine concentration of patients with thyroid
and normal people was higher than those before the USI (P<0.05).
Conclusions  The change of spectrum of thyroid diseases in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is obvious within 10 years after USI had been taken. The excessive intake of iodine may be one of the dangerous factors leading to toxic nodular goiter, thyroid papillary carcinoma, and Hashimoto thyroiditis.

Citation: WEI Lining,ZHANG Jiayue,LI Songming,CHEN Youjiang,PU Jian,LI Jinming,LI Rui,LENG jinli,PANG Feixiong,CEN Yanzeng,NONG Jiang,HE Hongyan,YE Yanni.. The Change of Spectrum of Thyroid Diseases Within Ten Years Implementation of Universal Salt Iodization in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2013, 20(12): 1374-1380. doi: Copy