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SIMPLE GOITER IN COLOMBIA

1950; Oxford University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1210/jcem-10-10-1309

1945-7197

Isidor Greenwald,

Medical research and treatments

IN HIS paper of this title, Parra (1) mentioned the recent increase in the incidence of goiter in the Departments of Caldas and Antioquia and stated: “This has been due to the fact that the regional consumption of salt from iodized sources has been almost completely replaced by the use of salt from the large mines near Bogota.” He gave no figures for the iodine content of these salts but in a letter dated March 17, 1949, he stated that the “salts from iodized sources” were from Guaca in Antioquia and from Bella Vista in Choco, and contained 4 and 35 mg. respectively, per 100 Gm. of salt. The iodine content of the salt from “the large mines near Bogota” is said to be “from 2 to 3 tenths milligram per 100 Gm. of salt.” According to this information, the concentration of iodine in the salts from Guaca.and Bella Vista are, respectively, 8 and 70 times as great as the highest previously recorded and are 33 and 292 times as much, in proportion to chloride, as is found in sea-water. (Sea salt contains much less (2).)