• Thyradin S tablets serve as an option for addressing insufficiencies in thyroid hormones, encompassing conditions like hypothyroidism, hypophyseal disorders, myxedema, and cretinism. (japanese-medicines.com)
  • Iodine deficiency disorders include mental retardation, hypothyroidism, goiter, cretinism, and varying degrees of other growth and developmental abnormalities. (cdc.gov)
  • This feature is a diagnostic for endemic cretinism that results from hypothyroidism. (reasons.org)
  • PAHO/WHO Technical Group on Endemic Goiter Cretinism, and Iodine Deficiency. (who.int)
  • The addition of iodine to salt or drinking water is credited with the reduction or elimination of cretinism and goiter, although cretinism still remains a serious problem in many rural sections of China. (westonaprice.org)
  • Interestingly, the role of iodine in fighting goiter and cretinism was only discovered during in the 20th century. (panlasangpinoy.com)
  • This is already sufficient to avoid diseases like goiter and cretinism. (panlasangpinoy.com)
  • Iodine deficiency results in a range of adverse health disorders with varying degrees of severity, from thyroid gland enlargement ( goiter ) to severe physical and mental retardation known as cretinism . (oregonstate.edu)
  • Iodine deficiency in utero and during growth can result in cretinism, a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to prolonged nutritional deficiency of iodine or from untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones (hypothyroidism). (westonaprice.org)
  • In the past, endemic cretinism due to iodine deficiency was especially common in areas of southern Europe around the Alps. (westonaprice.org)
  • One suspect was dwarf cretinism, sometimes brought on by a lack of iodine. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Only in the early twentieth century did scientists discover the relationship of cretinism with lack of iodine and thyroid deficiency. (westonaprice.org)
  • In Switzerland, where the soil is poor in iodine, cases of cretinism were abundant and even considered hereditary. (westonaprice.org)
  • This means, for Marx, that parliamentary cretinism creates an imaginary world without sense, memory, and understanding of the real world. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the words of Friedrich Engels: 'Parliamentary cretinism' is an incurable disease, an ailment whose unfortunate victims are permeated by the lofty conviction that the whole world, its history and its future are directed and determined by a majority of votes of just that very representative institution that has the honour of having them in the capacity of its members. (wikipedia.org)
  • But this new dimension of the social contradiction at the base due to the emergence of class gives birth to the Indian form of modern neurosis and cretinism that crystallised in the present-day communal fascist ideology. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • PAHO/WHO Technical Group on Endemic Goiter Cretinism, and Iodine Deficiency. (who.int)
  • Iodine deficiency disorders include mental retardation, hypothyroidism, goiter, cretinism, and varying degrees of other growth and developmental abnormalities. (cdc.gov)
  • Methimazole readily crosses the placental membranes and can induce goiter and even cretinism in the developing fetus. (nih.gov)
  • Endemic cretinism includes two syndromes: a more common neurological disorder with brain damage, deaf mutism, squint and spastic paresis of the legs and a less common syndrome of severe hypothyroidism, growth retardation and less severe mental defect. (qxmd.com)
  • Congenital hypothyroidism, previously known as cretinism, is a severe deficiency of thyroid hormone in newborns. (healthline.com)
  • Inadequate thyroid hormone during development leads to congenital hypothyroidism (also known as cretinism) with associated irreversible brain damage. (medscape.com)
  • Endemic cretinism is now included in the spectrum of the effects of iodine deficiency in a population termed the 'iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs)', which also includes a wide range of lesser degrees of cognitive defect that can be prevented by the correction of iodine deficiency. (qxmd.com)
  • 7. Timing of vulnerability of the brain to iodine deficiency in endemic cretinism. (nih.gov)
  • Four cases of sporadic cretinism, with remarks on some points in the pathology of the disease. (nih.gov)
  • Sporadic cretinism. (nih.gov)
  • Clinical remarks on a case of sporadic cretinism. (nih.gov)
  • Parliamentary cretinism (German: parlamentarische Kretinismus) is a pejorative for the belief that a socialist society can be achieved by peaceful, parliamentary means. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term parliamentary cretinism was originally coined by Karl Marx in chapter five of his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, published in 1852 following Louis Napoleon's coup d'état in France. (wikipedia.org)
  • This means, for Marx, that parliamentary cretinism creates an imaginary world without sense, memory, and understanding of the real world. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the words of Friedrich Engels: 'Parliamentary cretinism' is an incurable disease, an ailment whose unfortunate victims are permeated by the lofty conviction that the whole world, its history and its future are directed and determined by a majority of votes of just that very representative institution that has the honour of having them in the capacity of its members. (wikipedia.org)
  • One case of apparent mitigation of cretinism in hypothyroid infants by breastfeeding has been reported, but the amounts of thyroid hormones in milk are not optimal,[9] and this result has been disputed. (nih.gov)
  • These disorders include microcephaly, Laron syndrome, hypothyroid cretinism and Down Syndrome. (futurelearn.com)
  • A case of congenital cretinism. (nih.gov)
  • Depending upon the severity of the lack, the baby may have cretinism. (dummies.com)