Causes of different goiter rates with the same iodine deficiency among the pastoral and agricultural populations of Tibet: a geographical comparison

Table 5 Iodine and thyroxine levels in meat and dairy foods (μg/kg)

N^a=97, 75, 100, 10 and 1	Pastoral area			p	Agricultural area
N^a=97, 75, 100, 10 and 1	Median	Interquartile	Range	p	Median	Interquartile	Range
Total iodine in dried beef	100.8	53.0	39.7-287.8	0.000	52.5	37.4	10.4-382.5
Inorganic iodine in dried beef	55.8	27.3	11.9-166.5	0.001	33.7	25.7	1.1-104.0
Organic iodine in dried beef	45.5	39.4	6.8-245.6	0.000	18.2	22.7	0.4-278.5
thyroxine in dried beef	62.6	54.2	9.4-338.1	0.000	25.1	31.2	0.6-383.4
thyroxine in milk	13.5	7.0	0.0-83.2	0.000	4.1	6.6	0.0-117.2
thyroxine in mutton	-	-	-	-	10.1	-	-
thyroxine in pork	-	-	-	-	0.2	0.3	0.0-0.9

^a97 dried beef samples from pastoral area, 75 dried beef samples from agricultural area, 100 milk samples from each area, 10 pork samples and 1 mutton sample from agricultural area

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