Persistence of iodine deficiency 25 years after initial correction efforts in the Khumbu region of Nepal

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 1092, 1999, Pages 266-268

  Murdoch, David R ^b   Harding, Elizabeth G ^c   Dunn, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; FEMALE; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0033597948     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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