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Urinary Iodine Concentration
Urine iodine concentration, primarily reflecting recent iodine intake; a single measurement is more useful for population assessment than for precisely characterising an individual's long-term iodine status.
What is measured?
The concentration of iodine in a urine sample.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside TSH, free T4, free T3, TPOAb, TgAb, TRAb and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider thyroid picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
TSH, free T4, free T3, TPOAb, TgAb, TRAb
How to get this tested?
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