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The title of this study deserves attention for the following reasons:
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Hartfiel and Bahners (1988) have measured the selenium content of soil and found for West Germany a lower selenium content in soil than e.g. Finland, a country which was considered low in dietary daily selenium supply in the past.
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Oster and Prellwitz (1982) and Oster et al. (1988 a) reported serum, whole blood and organ selenium concentrations of healthy populations of Germany, which were only slightly higher than those reported from Finland (before Se fertilization of soil) (Westermarck 1977) and New Zealand (Thomson and Robinson 1980), also a country which is considered to have a low dietary selenium supply.
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Schrauzer and White (1978) presented a formula correlating whole blood selenium with the daily selenium intake. From this formula a daily dietary selenium intake of ca. 40 µg is calculated for West Germans.
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Oster, O., Prellwitz, W. (1989). Are Germans Selenium-Deficient?. In: Wendel, A. (eds) Selenium in Biology and Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74421-1_44
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