Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkers
Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) have been recognized as one of the major nutritional disorders throughout the world affecting 200 million people who are at risk and another 71 million suffering from goiter and other IDDs. These groups of disorders can affect every stage of life, but most vulnerab...
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doaj-71f087a4764d4d79a4fe60eaa69eef152020-11-25T01:15:42ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632017-01-016218219010.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_372_16Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkersGurmeet KaurTanu AnandNidhi BhatnagarAbhimanyu KumarDiwakar JhaShekhar GroverIodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) have been recognized as one of the major nutritional disorders throughout the world affecting 200 million people who are at risk and another 71 million suffering from goiter and other IDDs. These groups of disorders can affect every stage of life, but most vulnerable age group is between 6 and 12 years and these disorders together constitute the single largest preventable cause of brain damage leading to learning disabilities and psychomotor impairment. The existence of endemic goiter in an extensive belt along the southern slopes of the Himalayas, Alps, and Andes has long been described, but consistently high prevalence of IDDs outside the endemic zones and failure to attain goals set by the National Iodine Deficiency Disorder Control Program questions the strategy and achievements till date. Therefore, the present article is an attempt to critically examine the program since inception in India.http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2017;volume=6;issue=2;spage=182;epage=190;aulast=KaurGoiterIndiaiodine deficiency |
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Gurmeet Kaur Tanu Anand Nidhi Bhatnagar Abhimanyu Kumar Diwakar Jha Shekhar Grover Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkers Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care Goiter India iodine deficiency |
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Gurmeet Kaur Tanu Anand Nidhi Bhatnagar Abhimanyu Kumar Diwakar Jha Shekhar Grover |
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Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkers |
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Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkers |
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Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkers |
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Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkers |
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Past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in India: Need to look outside the blinkers |
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past, present, and future of iodine deficiency disorders in india: need to look outside the blinkers |
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care |
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Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) have been recognized as one of the major nutritional disorders throughout the world affecting 200 million people who are at risk and another 71 million suffering from goiter and other IDDs. These groups of disorders can affect every stage of life, but most vulnerable age group is between 6 and 12 years and these disorders together constitute the single largest preventable cause of brain damage leading to learning disabilities and psychomotor impairment. The existence of endemic goiter in an extensive belt along the southern slopes of the Himalayas, Alps, and Andes has long been described, but consistently high prevalence of IDDs outside the endemic zones and failure to attain goals set by the National Iodine Deficiency Disorder Control Program questions the strategy and achievements till date. Therefore, the present article is an attempt to critically examine the program since inception in India. |
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Goiter India iodine deficiency |
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