SUMMARY
The environmental geochemistry of iodine and its relation
to the endemic goitre in Việt
Đỗ Văn Ái, Võ Công Nghiệp,
Nguyễn Khắc Vinh, Quách Đức Tín
The endemic goitre is a popular disease affecting hundreds of millions of worldwide patients. This disease affects human being in many aspects, including: bad body development, nervous system, down disease, and some other diseases related to the lack of iodine like endemic goitre.
For over ten years, the National Program on Iodine defficiency prevention and protection has been carried out on the whole country and achieved some results. The epidemic investigation in some regions, actually, has shown the goitre rate still ranging from light to average levels. This leads to some doubt that the goitre there might be caused by other reasons.
Studies on the features of geochemical environment
and endemic goitre in some regions have shown that the reasons causing local
goitre is not only iodine defficiency, but also other factors of geochemical
environment, in which some elements might prevent the synthesizing capacity of
iodine component in thyroid gland. Studies on the relation between geochemical
environment and goitre in different ecological regions have been initially
defined and proposed some appropriate methods for the prevention and protection
from iodine deficiency disease in different ecogeoechemical systems on the
country.
Ngày nhận bài: 14/08/2008
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