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DeCS
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Descriptor English:
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Iodine Deficiency
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Descriptor Spanish:
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deficiencia de yodo
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Deficiência de Iodo
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Synonyms English:
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Iodine Deficiency, Primary
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Tree Number:
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SP6.016.052.068.134
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Definition English:
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Dietary iodine deficiency that causes endemic goiter. The main source of this mineral in the diet are fish and iodized salt. In pregnant women, this deficiency is serious because it causes cretinism in infants, a syndrome characterized by mental illness, spastic diplegia, deaf-mutism, disatria and hypothyroidism. |
See Related English:
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Goiter, Endemic
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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16596
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Occurrence in VHL:
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Similar:
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DeCS
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