Endemic cretinism

Endemic cretinism includes endemic subclinical cretinism, caused by iodine deficiency, a neuro-psychiatric syndrome characterized by intellectual disability; when iodine deficiency in the area is fully corrected, Illness or yaktin can be prevented. Typical dick's disease generally occurs in areas with severe iodine deficiency where there is an epidemic of edema. Local children's urinary iodine is less than 20micro; g / L will almost certainly cause dick's disease; when the rate of endemic goiter is greater than 30 There is usually an epidemic of dick disease at end%; endemic subclinical cretinism occurs in all areas with iodine deficiency, but is more common in areas with moderate or severe iodine deficiency.

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