Prevalence of mental retardation in urban and rural populations of the goiter zone in Northwest India

• Main Authors: Shailja Sharma (Author), Sunil Kumar Raina (Author), Ashok Kumar Bhardwaj (Author), Sanjeev Chaudhary (Author), Vipasha Kashyap (Author), Vishav Chander (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The existence of an endemic goiter belt along the southern slopes of the Himalayas has been known for a long time. Prevalence of neonatal hypothyroidism is high and there has been little work on the prevalence of mental retardation in this part of India. Objective: The study was conducte...