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IODINE IN NUTRITION

IODINE IN NUTRITION During the early years of the present decade, perhaps even in the still turbulent days of 1948, there could be seen on the highways of the Chinese province of Yunnan numbers of cretins, as well as other persons little more fortunate, displaying prominent goiters. Men and women working on the Burma Road were showing an incidence of thyroid enlargement often as high as 80 per cent.1 Residence in the Yunnan district for as little as six months, it appears, would suffice to induce such deformity in susceptible persons. For an understanding of this striking phenomenon, in many respects similar to the once epidemic proportion of goiter and cretinism in Berne, Switzerland, it is necessary only to remember that the Japanese were, in the early 1940's, still in control of strategic areas of China. As a consequence, the hinterland of China was cut off from its former coastal supply of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

IODINE IN NUTRITION

JAMA , Volume 139 (1) – Jan 1, 1949

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American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1949.72900180002010
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Abstract

During the early years of the present decade, perhaps even in the still turbulent days of 1948, there could be seen on the highways of the Chinese province of Yunnan numbers of cretins, as well as other persons little more fortunate, displaying prominent goiters. Men and women working on the Burma Road were showing an incidence of thyroid enlargement often as high as 80 per cent.1 Residence in the Yunnan district for as little as six months, it appears, would suffice to induce such deformity in susceptible persons. For an understanding of this striking phenomenon, in many respects similar to the once epidemic proportion of goiter and cretinism in Berne, Switzerland, it is necessary only to remember that the Japanese were, in the early 1940's, still in control of strategic areas of China. As a consequence, the hinterland of China was cut off from its former coastal supply of

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 1, 1949

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