Iodization of Village Water Supply in the Control of Endemic Iodine Deficiency in Rural Sarawak, Malaysia

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 236-241

  Foo, L C ^a   Zainab, T ^b   Goh, S Y ^c   Letchuman, G R ^d   Nafikudin, M ^d   Doraisingam, P ^b   Khalid, Bak ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b Forest Department Sarawak   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; SILICONE DERIVATIVE; SODIUM IODIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC GOITER; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; PREVALENCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HUMANS; IODINE; MALAYSIA; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SILICONES; SODIUM IODIDE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0030229115     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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