Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism in India
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Child Health - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Iodine was characterized as an essential element of thyroid tissue by Baumann in 1895. The efficacy of iodine to prevent goiter was demonstrated by Marine in Northern USA in 1916–1920. Severe endemic goiter and cretinism had been almost entirely eliminated from continental Western Europe and Northern America before the 1930’s. Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) due to the absence of thyroid gland in babies was found to be the cause of cretinism in most of the infants in early 1930s, and this was considered a separate entity from iodine deficiency. Screening for CH started in many countries almost 50 years ago, after the screening for Phenylketonuria was invented by Dr. Robert Guthrie. Screening for CH is the most cost‑effective public health program.
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R Kishore Kumar, Amit Agrawal
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