Author: John Dennison
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461402816
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Responding to a renewed interest in the growing problem of iodine deficiency worldwide, Drs. Charles Oxnard and Peter Obendorf, along with experienced translator and anatomist John Dennison, take a fresh look at the classic text, Der endemische Kretinismus, published in 1936 by Springer. Translated here for the first time into English, this landmark text will be a welcome resource for researchers confronting the problem of iodine deficiency. Oxnard and Obendorf point out that there is very little detailed knowledge or numerical data on cretinism available in the English-speaking world. In addition, highly-renowned Professor Basil S. Hetzel, recently-retired World Health Organization Chairman of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, published in 2009 with Dr Chen Zu-pei on the resurgence of iodine deficiency in China. Indeed, throughout the entire developing world there may be as many as two billion people at risk to iodine deficiency; perhaps three quarters of a billion have goiter, and ten million may be cretins. Even in developed countries, iodine deficiency is re-emerging (as in New South Wales in 19% of children) with the result of significantly reduced numbers of gifted children (though this is not cretinism per se). Certain to be of significant interest to a wide range of researchers, health providers and professionals, including government health administrators, this English translation of Endemic Cretinism is a major contribution to the literature.
Author: PAHO/WHO Technical Group on Endemic Goiter, Cretinism, and Iodine Deficiency. Meeting
Publisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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This book presents the scientific papers, discussions, and recommendations of the 1983 Lima, Peru PAHO/WHO Technical Group Meeting. The text is divided into 5 parts, examining the various topics in the subjects (pathophysiology, special problems, methods of diagnosis and treatment, geographic documentation, and recommendations.
Author: John B. Stanbury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835798839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: F. Merke
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: John Bruton Stanbury
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471058199
Category : Cretinism
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Author: Pan American Health Organization. Technical Group on Endemic Goiter
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Category : Congenital hypothyroidism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Author: G. Robert Delong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461307651
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda on March 21-23. 1988. jointly sponsored by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. Several themes converged to make this meeting timely. The first is an increasing awareness of iodine deficiency disorders as a world-wide problem of public health and a preventable cause of mental deficiency. and as a subject of scientific effort. Increased interest in these problems owes a great deal to accessibility to remote and under developed areas of the world where iodine deficiency persists. As with any subject. greater scrutiny yields unexpected complexity and interest. It is true that provision of iodine. typically as iodized salt, is the necessary and sufficient preventative for iodine deficiency disorders. without including endemic cretinism. This provision is a governmental, economic and social problem. Apart from this, however, the scientific and medical problem of iodine deficiency and its effect on brain development and function is one of great interest and importance for developmental neurology and psychology. Even though the specific preventative agent is known, we do not totally understand the neurobiological questions raised.
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Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Author: William Robinson (M.D.)
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Category : Endemic goiter
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: John Bruton Stanbury
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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