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From: The risk of selenium deficiency in Malawi is large and varies over multiple spatial scales

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Selenium (Se) status of the Malawi population: (a) ___location of rural and urban Enumeration Areas from which study participants were recruited, (b) median unbiased predicted plasma Se concentration of women of reproductive age (WRA), (c) plasma Se concentration among WRA according to proximity to Eutric Vertisol soil classification, and to Lake Malawi or the Shire River; the threshold for the optimal activity of iodothyronine deiodinase (IDI) and glutathione peroxidase 3 (GPx3) are indicated by dashed and solid lines, respectively.

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