Iodine Deficiency and Mortality in Spanish Adults: Di@bet.es Study

BACKGROUND: Longitudinal data assessing the impact of Iodine deficiency on mortality are scarce. We aimed to study the association between the state of iodine nutrition and the risk of total and cause-specific mortality in a representative sample of the Spanish adult population.; METHODS: We performed a longitudinal observational study to estimate mortality risk according to urinary iodine (UI) concentrations using a sample of 4370 subjects >18 years representative of the Spanish adult population participating in the nation-wide study Di@bet.es (2008-2010). We used Cox regression to assess the association between UI at the start of the study (