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VITAMINS MINERALS COENZYMES AND DEFICIENCY DISEASES
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Cretinism
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Crohn’s disease
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Keshan disease
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Multiple sclerosis
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Detailed explanation-1: -Endemic cretinism is the extreme clinical manifestation of severe hypothyroidism during foetal, neonatal and childhood stages of development. It is characterised by severe and irreversible mental retardation, short stature, deaf-mutism, spastic dysplegia and squints.
Detailed explanation-2: -Neurological cretinism is characterized by mental retardation, deaf mutism, squint, spastic diplegia, and disorders of stance and gait.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many people don’t know they have an iodine deficiency. However, some people who don’t have enough iodine develop a goitre, or enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck. Iodine deficiency can also lead to hypothyroidism, (underactive thyroid, where there is too little of the thyroid hormone).