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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Worth Your Salt
Challenge: Worldwide, what is the most common cause of this condition?
This is a goiter. The salt reference is probably hinting at iodine deficiency as the most likely cause. That's not a very common cause of goiter here in the States, though, because our iodized salt is in everything.
Iodine-deficiency goitre
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ReplyDeleteThis is a goiter. The salt reference is probably hinting at iodine deficiency as the most likely cause. That's not a very common cause of goiter here in the States, though, because our iodized salt is in everything.
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Worth Your Salt
This is goiter, most commonly caused by iodine deficiency.
Sources: Wikipedia, Robbins’ Pathological Basis of Disease.