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National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy
Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) constitute a significant public health problem globally. In India, the entire population is prone to IDDs due to deficiency of iodine in the soil of the sub-continent and thus both animal and plant source food grown on the iodine-deficient soil. IDDs encompass the...
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description | Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) constitute a significant public health problem globally. In India, the entire population is prone to IDDs due to deficiency of iodine in the soil of the sub-continent and thus both animal and plant source food grown on the iodine-deficient soil. IDDs encompass the spectrum of disability and disease and include goitre, cretinism, hypothyroidism, abortion, stillbirth, brain damage, learning disabilities, mental retardation, psychomotor defects, hearing and speech impairment. Iodine deficiency is known to be the single largest cause of preventable brain damage. IDDs with their causal association with brain development, cognition, and learning disabilities impair the human resource development and progress of the country. The children born in iodine-deficient regions on an average have 13.5 intelligence quotient (IQ) points lesser than children born in iodine-sufficient regions. IDD control programme in India is a public health success story, with 92 per cent of the population consuming iodized salt. The partnership between government agencies, academic institutions, salt industry, development agencies and civil society has been key to achieve this success story. The sustainable elimination of iodine deficiency in India is within reach, what is required is accelerated and coordinated effort by all key stakeholder at national and State level. |
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spelling | pubmed-63662562019-02-19 National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy Yadav, Kapil Pandav, Chandrakant S. Indian J Med Res Review Article Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) constitute a significant public health problem globally. In India, the entire population is prone to IDDs due to deficiency of iodine in the soil of the sub-continent and thus both animal and plant source food grown on the iodine-deficient soil. IDDs encompass the spectrum of disability and disease and include goitre, cretinism, hypothyroidism, abortion, stillbirth, brain damage, learning disabilities, mental retardation, psychomotor defects, hearing and speech impairment. Iodine deficiency is known to be the single largest cause of preventable brain damage. IDDs with their causal association with brain development, cognition, and learning disabilities impair the human resource development and progress of the country. The children born in iodine-deficient regions on an average have 13.5 intelligence quotient (IQ) points lesser than children born in iodine-sufficient regions. IDD control programme in India is a public health success story, with 92 per cent of the population consuming iodized salt. The partnership between government agencies, academic institutions, salt industry, development agencies and civil society has been key to achieve this success story. The sustainable elimination of iodine deficiency in India is within reach, what is required is accelerated and coordinated effort by all key stakeholder at national and State level. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6366256/ /pubmed/30666977 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1717_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Yadav, Kapil Pandav, Chandrakant S. National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy |
title | National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy |
title_full | National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy |
title_fullStr | National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy |
title_full_unstemmed | National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy |
title_short | National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme: Current status & future strategy |
title_sort | national iodine deficiency disorders control programme: current status & future strategy |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366256/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30666977 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1717_18 |
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