Neurological damage to the fetus resulting from severe iodine deficiency during pregnancy

Pharoah, P.O.; Buttfield, I.H.; Hetzel, B.S.

Lancet 1(7694): 308-310

1971


ISSN/ISBN: 0140-6736
PMID: 4100150
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(71)91040-3
Document Number: 519310
In a population of about 8000 in the Western Highlands of New Guinea iodised oil was given by muscle to prevent endemic cretinism. Follow-up for 4 years revealed 26 endemic cretins of a total of 534 children born to mothers who had not received iodised oil; the mothers of 5 of these cretins were pregnant at the start of the trial.

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