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F. Delange
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University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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J. T. Dunn
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University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, USA
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D. Glinoer
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University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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Table of contents (60 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Overview of Iodine Nutrition
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Iodine and physiopathology of the thyroid
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- Ulrich Bürgi, Hans Gerber, Hugo Studer
Pages 61-69
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- Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Jack L. Leonard, Lewis E. Braverman
Pages 71-78
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- Nobuo Matsuura, Shohei Harada
Pages 93-99
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Methodology of evaluation of iodine nutrition in developed countries
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- Claude Thilly, Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes, Jean Vanderpas
Pages 103-108
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- Rainer Gutekunst, Hans Martin-Teichert
Pages 109-118
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Status of iodine nutrition in North America, Japan and Australia
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- Sam Pino, Lewis E. Braverman
Pages 129-130
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Consequences of iodine deficiency in Europe on agriculture and socio-economic development
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- Manfred Anke, Bernd Groppel, Karl-Heinz Bauch
Pages 151-158
About this book
The disorders induced by iodine deficiency affect at least one billion people. Because ofits effects on brain development, iodinedeficiency is the single most preventable cause of mental retardation in the world. Therefore, the United Nations and the Heads of State of almost all the world's countries represented at the Summit for Children in 1990 adopted resolutions to eradicate the disorders induced by iodine deficiency (IDD) by the year 2000. For geological and socio-economic reasons, most of the populations affected by iodine deficiency disorders live in isolated and usually mountainous areas, in pre industrialized parts ofthe world. The problem of iodine deficiency in Europe has been greatly underestimated in the last decades. After the remarkable studies on the effects of iodine deficiency and their prevention and correction in Switzerland, IDD was generally considered no longer a significant public health problem in Europe. However, surveys carried out in the early 1980's under the auspices of the European Thyroid Association, clearly demonstrated the persistence of moderately or even severely affected areas. These surveys also highlighted the lack ofinformation about large parts ofEurope, especially its eastern part. It is only quite recently, following major changes in international relations and thanks to the support of UNICEF, WHO, the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders and the European Thyroid Association, that more extensive surveys have been conducted in several parts of Europe hitherto almost unexplored. These surveys showed that most European countries were iodine deficient.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
F. Delange,
D. Glinoer
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University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, USA
J. T. Dunn
