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Prevalence of Goitre in Rayagada District of Orissa


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1 Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Orissa, India
     

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Iodine is an essential dietary nutrient that helps the body to produce thyroxine, the hormone that regulates normal growth and development. The quantity of iodine requirement is minute i.e. 150-200 micrograms per day which amounts to a pinhead a month. An average lifetime requirement of an individual would be less than a teaspoonful of iodine. Still iodine deficiency is one of the major public health problems faced by the developing world with more than one billion people at risk.
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T. R. Behera
Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Orissa, India
N. C. Sahani
Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Orissa, India
O. M. Satapathy
Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Orissa, India
R. M. Tripathy
Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Orissa, India
R. R. Moharana
Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Orissa, India

Abstract


Iodine is an essential dietary nutrient that helps the body to produce thyroxine, the hormone that regulates normal growth and development. The quantity of iodine requirement is minute i.e. 150-200 micrograms per day which amounts to a pinhead a month. An average lifetime requirement of an individual would be less than a teaspoonful of iodine. Still iodine deficiency is one of the major public health problems faced by the developing world with more than one billion people at risk.