Iodine Deficiency Disorders

Description: In Human Nutrition in the Developing World Iodine deficiency is responsible not only for very widespread endemic goitre and cretinism, but also for retarded physical growth and intellectual development and a variety of other conditions. These conditions together are now termed iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). They are particularly important because: · perhaps one-quarter of the world's people consume inadequate amounts of iodine; · the disorders have a major impact on the individual and on society; · of the four major deficiency diseases, IDD is the easiest to control.