What does IDD stand for?

Iodine Deficiency Disorders

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The situation with iodine deficiency disorders will be discussed during the round table discussion tomorrow in Bishkek.

13% of pregnant women, 10% of schoolchildren in Kyrgyzstan suffer ...

With UNICEF support, the State Ministry of Health conducted a workshop on preventing iodine deficiency disorders for 47 community members in Habila.

Humanitarian Action in Darfur Weekly Bulletin No. 9-10

3) The World Health Organization (WHO) speculates that iodine deficiency disorders affect 740 million people worldwide and that nearly 35%, about two billion, of the world's population are iodine-deficient.

Iodine and iodide: functions and benefits beyond the thyroid

is 240 mcg, well within the range that the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders defines as an optimal iodine intake, 150 to 299 mcg/day.

Extrathyroidal benefits of iodine

The term iodine deficiency disorders refers to a spectrum of effects of iodine deficiency on growth and development at all stages of the life cycle.

Iodine

Population effects of severe iodine deficiency, termed iodine deficiency disorders (IDD's), include endemic goiter, hypothyroidism, cretinism, decreased fertility rate, increased infant mortality, and mental retardation.

International iodine deficiency

John Dunn, professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and secretary of the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD).

Your Health Getting Enough?

His areas of research were protein energy malnutrition, iodine deficiency disorders, nutritional anemia, and liver diseases in the tropics.

Vulimiri Ramalingaswami (1921-2001)