世界卫生组织应重视高碘引起甲状腺肿的危害

WHO neglected the goiter induced by excessive iodine

根据近年世界卫生组织(WHO)、国际控制碘缺乏病理事会(ICCIDD)公布的用尿碘评价碘营养状况和碘缺乏病(IDD)严重度的主要指标,可WHO忽视了高碘可引起甲状腺肿大(甲肿)。但从1980年以来,中国做了不少高碘甲肿研究工作,而且现在中国已有9个省份存在此病。所以作者认为,把中国关于高碘甲肿的研究尽早纳入WHO的用尿碘评价碘营养状况和IDD严重度的指标内是必要的。

According to the indicator for assessing Iodine Deficiency Disorder s published recently by WHO/UNICEF/ICCIDD, the goiter induced by excessive iodin e (IEG) was neglected by WHO. Whereas, many studies of IEG had been completed in China, and now the IEG is present in 9 provinces of China. So the writer thinks that it is necessary for WHO to adopt the Chinese data of IEG into the WHO/UNIC EF/ICCIDD indicator for assessing the status of iodine nutrition and the severit y of IDD .