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What is disadvantage of iodine?
because it causes goiter
How does goiter effect the body?
Goiter is cause by a lack of Iodine in the body. It causes the thyroid to become enlarged.
What mineral deficiency causes goiter?
iodine
Why does neck increase in goiter?
Goiter is a swelling in the thyroid gland which is situated in the neck and often causes additional swelling of the neck.
Can the thyroid gland swell?
A deficiency that causes the thyroid gland to swell is iodine deficiency. This is also believed to be the main cause of goiter.
What causes a simple goiter and is it heredity?
A low dietary intake of iodine.
What hormone causes goiters?
Goiter is an enlargement of the thyroid gland, located in the neck. Simple goiter is caused by too little iodine which is available in the hormone thyroxine. Toxic goiter, on the other hand, is caused by exactly the opposite condition, overproduction of thyroxine. Oddly enough, both can often be treated by the administration of iodine in one form or another.
What is a disease that enlarges thyroid glands or goiter and causes bulging eyeballs?
Graves disease, hyperthyroidism
What is a goiter. What happens when you get a goiter?
Goiter is the enlargement of the thyroid gland.
What causes a goiter to grow in size?
A goiter grows in size due to an imbalance in thyroid hormone production, which can be caused by iodine deficiency, autoimmune disorders, or other factors affecting the thyroid gland.
A chronic disease of the immune system that attacks the thyroid gland and causes a goiter is called?
Graves' Disease.
Hypo secretion of the thyroid gland in adults causes?
sharnay marie hart/goiter
