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A pregnant female delivers a baby who suffers from stunted growth, mental retardation, low intelligence quotient and abnormal skin. This is the result of:


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Deficiency of iodine in diet
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Low secretion of growth hormone
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Cancer of the thyroid gland
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Over secretion of pars distalis
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Solution

The correct option is A Deficiency of iodine in diet

Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth owing to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormone (congenital hypothyroidism) usually owing to maternal hypothyroidism. Cretinism is therefore most probably due to a diet deficient in iodine.


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