Spencer, Sarah, Lowery, David, Peckham, Stephen (2014) Are high fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England? In: ISEE-EUROPE 2014 Young Researchers Conference on Environmental Epidemiology, 20-12 October 2014, Barcelona. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:48365)
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Abstract
Background and aims
The aim of this study was to examine whether there are differences in the prevalence of
drinking water.
We used a cross-sectional study design using secondary data to develop a linear regression model of
water, hypothyroidism prevalence data, the proportion of registered patients that were female and
of GP practices in areas with fluoride levels ?0.7mg/l to those with fluoride levels <0.3mg/l. We also
West Midlands Metropolitan County, a wholly fluoridated area; and Greater Manchester, a nonfluoridated
Results
the linear regression model. The model accounted for 52% of the observed variance and was
controlling for age and gender. The comparison of high and low fluoride areas showed a significantly
West Midlands Metropolitan County and Greater Manchester showed a higher mean practice level
significant.
The findings of the study show that higher levels of fluoride in drinking water are associated with a
confirmation of the findings of previous studies suggesting that ingestion of fluoride suppresses
thyroid function.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Speech) |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | Hypothyroidism, thyroid function, fluoride, drinking water, artificial fluoridation |
Subjects: |
R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R729 Types of medical practice > R729.5.G4 General practice R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies |
Depositing User: | Stephen Peckham |
Date Deposited: | 11 May 2015 11:23 UTC |
Last Modified: | 06 May 2020 03:12 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/48365 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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