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Table 1 Search strategy for MEDLINE and adaptability to regional databases

From: The prevalence of insufficient iodine intake in pregnancy in Africa: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

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1

iodine deficiency [tw] OR iodine insufficiency [tw] OR insufficient iodine intake [tw] OR insufficiency iodine nutrition [tw] OR iodine

 

2

urine iodine excretion [tw] OR urine iodine concentration [tw] OR urinary iodine excretion [tw] OR urinary iodine concentration [tw] OR urine iodine

 

3

Pregnancy [tw] OR Pregnant women [tw] OR expectant mothers [tw] first trimester [tw] [tw] OR second trimester [tw] third trimester [tw]

 

4

#1 AND #3

 

5

#2 AND #3

 

6

African filter((((Angola[tw] OR Benin[tw] OR Botswana[tw] OR “Burkina Faso”[tw] OR Burundi[tw] OR

Cameroon[tw] OR “Cape Verde”[tw] OR “Central African Republic”[tw] OR Chad[tw] OR Comoros[tw] OR

Congo[tw] OR “Democratic Republic of Congo”[tw] OR Djibouti[tw] OR “Equatorial Guinea”[tw] OR Eritrea[tw]

OR Ethiopia[tw] OR Gabon[tw] OR Gambia[tw] OR Ghana[tw] OR Guinea[tw] OR “Guinea Bissau”[tw] OR

“Ivory Coast”[tw] OR “Cote d’Ivoire”[tw] OR Kenya[tw] OR Lesotho[tw] OR Liberia[tw] OR Madagascar[tw] OR

Malawi[tw] OR Mali[tw] OR Mauritania[tw] OR Mauritius[tw] OR Mozambique[tw] OR Namibia[tw] OR Niger

[tw] OR Nigeria[tw] OR Principe[tw] OR Reunion[tw] OR Rwanda[tw] OR “Sao Tome”[tw] OR Senegal[tw] OR

Seychelles[tw] OR “Sierra Leone”[tw] OR Somalia[tw] OR “South Africa”[tw] OR Sudan[tw] OR Swaziland[tw]

OR Tanzania[tw] OR Togo[tw] OR Uganda[tw] OR “Western Sahara”[tw] OR Zambia[tw] OR Zimbabwe[tw]

OR “Central Africa”[tw] OR “Central African”[tw] OR “West Africa”[tw] OR “West African”[tw] OR “Western

Africa”[tw] OR “Western African”[tw] OR “East Africa”[tw] OR “East African”[tw] OR “Eastern Africa”[tw] OR

“Eastern African”[tw] OR “South African”[tw] OR “Southern Africa”[tw] OR “Southern African”[tw] OR “sub

Saharan Africa”[tw] OR “sub Saharan African”[tw] OR “subSaharan Africa”[tw] OR “subSaharan African”[tw]

NOT “guinea pig” [tw] NOT “guinea pigs” [tw] NOT “aspergillus niger” [tw]))))

 

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# 4 AND # 6 Limits: 01/01/1990 to 31/12/2018 in English, French, and Portuguese on humans

 

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# 5 AND # 6 Limits: 0109/1990 to 31/12/2018 in English, French, and Portuguese on humans