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Iodine Deficiency
About Iodine Deficiency
The leading preventable cause of intellectual disability. Severe deficiency stunts brains and causes goiter neck swelling. Salt iodization from the 1920s quietly protected billions. Around 2 billion people still get too little iodine.
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