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ENDEMIC GOITER IN BOYER-AHMAD
In order to investigate goiter prevalence in Boyer-Ahmad, an Iranian tribal province, 87 families were randomly selected in Yasuj township and Doruhan county. Clinical examination of the subjects disclosed 95% of females and 87% of males over 6 years of age to be goitrous. Grade 2 goiter had the highest prevalence among females. In males grade 1 b was the most prevalent. Hormonal studies o...
متن کاملEndemic Goiter
ENDEMIC GOITER. The Adaptation of Man to Iodine Deficiency. By John B. Stanbury, Gordon L. Brownell, Douglas S. Riggs, Hector Perinetti, Juan Itoiz, and Enrique B. Del Castillo. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1954. 209 pp. $4.00. This monograph reports the results obtained by the Andean Goiter Expedition, a joint project undertaken by Harvard Medical School, the University ...
متن کاملEpidemiologic Survey of Endemic Goiter in Shahriar
In order to start a goitre prevention program in Shahriar area, a survey of the disease prevalence and possible contributory factors was conducted. Three hundred and sixty seven households chosen randomly, were surveyed as to their economic, sociocultural and goitre status. Urinary excretion of iodine and iodine content of water in the area was measured. Food consumption survey demonstrated tha...
متن کاملEndemic goiter--an update.
Goiter means thyroid enlargement, and endemic means frequent in a certain locality. The problem is from what volume and up a thyroid is considered to be large enough as to be classified as goiter and also from what prevalence and up an area is considered to be endemic. It is obvious that by playing with these definitions one may increase or decrease the prevalence of goiter perceived in an ...
متن کامل[Endemic goiter in public health].
This work focuses on the medical condition known as endemic goiter considering its epidemiological aspects and its interest in Public Health. After delimiting some basic concepts, one will refer to the implications that the shortage of the daily ingestion of iodine, which is the main etiology of the affection in question, brings to the normal physical, mental and social development of the human...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.44.11.1411