Environmental factors other than iodine deficiency in the pathogenesis of endemic goiter in the basin of river Ganga and Bay of Bengal, India

• Main Authors: Amar K Chandra (Author), Arijit Debnath (Author), Smritiratan Tripathy (Author), Haimanti Goswami (Author), Chiranjit Mondal (Author), Arijit Chakraborty (Author), Elizabeth N Pearce (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In iodine-replete basin of the river Ganga and the Bay of Bengal, we studied iodine nutritional status of school children by goiter prevalence and their urinary iodine (UI), iodine content in edible salt, and the bioavailability of iodine through water and its contribution to iodine nutr...