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Monitoring iodine nutritional status: adults or schoolchildren?

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Lazarus, J.H. Monitoring iodine nutritional status: adults or schoolchildren?. J Endocrinol Invest 44, 383–385 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-020-01313-6

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