TY - BOOK ID - 8285534 TI - Endemic cretinism AU - Dennison, John. AU - Oxnard, Charles E. AU - Obendorf, Peter. PY - 2011 SN - 1489997822 1461402808 9786613352026 1283352028 1461402816 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Congenital Hypothyroidism. KW - Cretinism. KW - Endemic Diseases. KW - Endemic goiter. KW - Cretinism KW - Endemic goiter KW - Dwarfism KW - Bone Diseases, Endocrine KW - Hypothyroidism KW - Thyroid Diseases KW - Genetic Diseases, Inborn KW - Endocrine System Diseases KW - Bone Diseases KW - Bone Diseases, Developmental KW - Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities KW - Musculoskeletal Diseases KW - Diseases KW - Congenital Hypothyroidism KW - Medicine KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Clinical Endocrinology KW - Epidemiology. KW - Congenial hypothyrodism KW - Medicine. KW - Internal medicine. KW - Endocrinology. KW - Neurology. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Internal Medicine. KW - Public health KW - Congenital myxedema KW - Endemic cretinism KW - Fetal iodine deficiency disorder KW - Iodine deficiency diseases KW - Newborn infants KW - Nervous system KW - Neuropsychiatry KW - Medicine, Internal KW - Internal medicine KW - Hormones KW - Endocrinology . KW - Neurology . KW - Congenital hypothyroidism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8285534 AB - Responding to a renewed interest in the growing problem of iodine deficiency worldwide, Drs. Charles Oxnard and Peter Obendorf, along with experienced translator and anatomist John Dennison, take a fresh look at the classic text, Der endemische Kretinismus, published in 1936 by Springer. Translated here for the first time into English, this landmark text will be a welcome resource for researchers confronting the problem of iodine deficiency. Oxnard and Obendorf point out that there is very little detailed knowledge or numerical data on cretinism available in the English-speaking world.  In addition, highly-renowned Professor Basil S. Hetzel, recently-retired World Health Organization Chairman of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, published in 2009 with Dr Chen Zu-pei on the resurgence of iodine deficiency in China.  Indeed, throughout the entire developing world there may be as many as two billion people at risk to iodine deficiency; perhaps three quarters of a billion have goiter, and ten million may be cretins.  Even in developed countries, iodine deficiency is re-emerging (as in New South Wales in 19% of children) with the result of significantly reduced numbers of gifted children (though this is not cretinism per se). Certain to be of significant interest to a wide range of researchers, health providers and professionals, including government health administrators, this English translation of Endemic Cretinism is a major contribution to the literature. ER -