47 i M.RANKE,K.v.PUTTKAMER and J.R.BIERICH Univ-Kinderklinik,Tiibingen, W-Germany Changes of TSH secretion in goitrous chil- dren treated with potassium iodide. In adults with goiter due to iodine deficiency it has been shown that short term treatment with po- tassium iodide is able ...
The Incidence of Goiter Among Adults in Nashville, Tennessee.An abstract is unavailable. This article is available as a PDF only.doi:10.1097/00005053-193211000-00020YoumansJohn B.The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Cretinism and mental retardation are the most profound manifestations seen in infants as a result of severe IDD in pregnancy. Children in areas with IDD can have enlarged thyroid glands. Goiter, hypothyroidism, and toxic multinodular goiter are commonly seen in the adults of these areas. In the...
We examined the association between self-reported goiter and upper gastrointestinal cancer in a Chinese cohort of 29,584 adults. Using multivariate adjusted Cox models, we found goiter associated with a significantly increased risk of gastric noncardia adenocarcinoma, HR (95% CI) 2.04 (1.01, 4.11)...
Another independent research also reported that the highest prevalence of goiter occurred in pre-menopausal females and that the ratio of female/male was greater than 4:1 [15]. Similarly, a Chinese community-based population study revealed that the prevalence of TN in 9533 Chinese adults aged ...