[Iodine intake in Portuguese school children].

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate iodine intake in portuguese school children in order to inform health authorities of eventual measures to be implemented.

Introduction: Iodine is the key element for thyroid hormone synthesis and its deficiency even mild, as found in other European countries, may have deleterious effects in pregnancy resulting in cognitive problems of offsprings. In Portugal there are no recent data on iodine intake in schoolchildren.

Musculoskeletal pain in lower limbs in obese patients before and after bariatric surgery.

Background: The World Health Organization estimates that in 2015 there will be approximately 2.3 billion overweight adults and more than 700 million obese individuals worldwide. Excess weight can lead to several complications, such degenerative diseases.

In vitro assays to test the interference of anti-thyroglobulin antibodies on thyroglobulin measurement.

Objective: To assess the interference of anti-thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb) on serum thyroglobulin (Tg) measurement by in vitro experiments. Design Re-evaluation of Tg concentration after dilution with different TgAb-positive sera. On a first step, dilutions of the same Tg with different TgAb sera were performed and on a second step, different Tgs were diluted with the same TgAb serum.