| 41. | Dietary iodine deficiency may also play a role.
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| 42. | Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability.
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| 43. | Nationwide, the biggest problem has been iodine deficiency, a leading cause of brain damage in unborn children.
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| 44. | The result : Iodine deficiency was quickly eliminated in the cities and many densely populated eastern provinces.
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| 45. | Iodine deficiency is linked to goiter, a thyroid condition that causes swollen throats and other health problems.
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| 46. | Goals set at the 1990 gathering included the eradication of polio, guinea-worm infection and iodine deficiency disorder.
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| 47. | The main problem in eliminating iodine deficiency is that politicians tend to ignore the problem, Karpov said.
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| 48. | Iodine deficiency disorders are endemic in all countries studied except parts of Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
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| 49. | In 2002, the Network for Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency was launched at the Special Session for Children.
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| 50. | One of the common ailments that afflict tribals is goitus-- primarily due to iodine deficiency in drinking water.
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