title: [The importance of sociomedical factors for the regression of endemic goiter in South Baden (author's transl)].
abstract: The further regression of endemic goiter between 1963 and 1973 was investigated with regard to its dependence on social factors and age in representative cross-section of 3933 persons living in South Baden. 2202 of them were natives and 1731 were people who had moved into South Baden. The regression of endemic goiter observable since 1950 included all occupational groups. But if the group of farmers and smallholders (goiter frequency: 1963 = 62.0%, 1973 = 38.6%) is compared with professional people living a town life (goiter frequency: 1963 = 30.0%, 1973 = 15.5%) a noteworthy dependence of goiter attacks on the living habits is even now to be seen. Nodular goiter is more frequent among people living the life of a smallholder (1963: 6.8%, 1973:5.4%) than among native professional people (1963: j.0%, 1973: 3.4%).
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006043:Goiter, Endemic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009790:Occupations; D012424:Rural Population; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population
vernacular_title: Bedeutung sozialmedizinischer Faktoren für den Rückgang der Kropfendemie in Südbaden