title: The iodine-selenium connection: its possible roles in intelligence, cretinism, sudden infant death syndrome, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
abstract: Several diseases and disorders display spatial patterns that suggest the involvement of both selenium and iodine deficiencies, or excesses, in their etiologies. It is suggested that many of these similarities in geographical distribution occur because both elements influence thyroid hormone metabolism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Foster
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D003409:Congenital Hypothyroidism / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007360:Intelligence; D007455:Iodine / Q000172:deficiency / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000209:etiology; D012643:Selenium / Q000172:deficiency / Q000378:metabolism*; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D007455:Iodine; D012643:Selenium