IODINE DEFICIENCY AND RISK OF PCOS IN ADOLESCENTS: A POPULATION-BASED STUDY OF PREVALENCE, MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES, AND THYROID DYSFUNCTION
Keywords:
adolescent health; polycystic ovary syndrome; iodine deficiency; urinary iodine concentration; thyroid dysfunction.Abstract
This thesis presents a population-based study framework for assessing PCOS prevalence and clinical–endocrine phenotypes in iodine-deficient regions. It integrates WHO-recommended iodine status indicators with adolescent-appropriate PCOS diagnostics, proposes practical sampling and measurement strategies, and outlines analytic approaches to disentangle associations among iodine nutrition, thyroid dysfunction, menstrual irregularities, and PCOS risk without inflating prevalence through pubertal overlap.
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