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Intake of iodized salt is adviced in the

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Anaemia
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Goitre
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Ricket
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Pellagra
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The correct option is B Goitre
A low amount of thyroxine (one of the two thyroid hormones) in the blood, due to lack of dietary iodine to make it, gives rise to high levels of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which stimulates the thyroid gland to increase many biochemical processes such as the cellular growth and proliferation can result in the characteristic swelling or hyperplasia of the thyroid gland, or goiter. In mild iodine deficiency, levels of triiodothyronine (T3) may be elevated in the presence of low levels of levothyroxine, as the body converts more of the levothyroxine to triiodothyronine as a compensation. Some such patients may have a goitre, without an elevated TSH. The introduction of iodized salt since the early 1900s has eliminated this condition in many affluent countries.

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