ea0090s19.1 | Oxidative stress in thyroid disease? | ECE2023
Erdoğan Murat Faik
Iodine deficiency (ID) is a public health problem and has considerable consequences other than endemic goiter, known as iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). Neonatal hypothyroidism, growth retardation, and cretenism are the results of severe ID. Neuronal migration and myelination of fetal brain requires iodine. Thus, insufficient iodine intake during pregnancy may cause permanent fetal brain damage. ID in prenatal period and early childhood has unfavorable effects on cerebral de...