Iodine deficiency disorders in India.
Iodine deficiency disorders were widely prevalent in Indian subcontinent before the successful salt iodisation. There has been a remarkable decline in goitre prevalence and improvement of functional thyroid status and normalisation of iodine nutrition status in the community. Goitre endemicity of varying degree persists among school children even a decade after successful salt iodisation in India. Some other factors like high thiocyanate exposure or auto-immune thyroid disease could be responsible for such a phenomenon.
Laway
Bashir Ahmad
BA
Department of Endocrinology, Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar.
Zargar
Abdul Hamid
AH
D003409:Congenital Hypothyroidism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007455:Iodine / Q000172:deficiency / Q000652:urine*; D015995:Prevalence; D012982:Sodium, Dietary / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D012982:Sodium, Dietary; D007455:Iodine