Iodine deficiency remains a global concern for developing countries and some industrialised countries. Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of preventable mental retardation, posing a threat to the social and economic development of countries. Initiatives were developed and instituted to accelerate progress to achieve the goal of universal salt iodisation (USI). However, these efforts were not successful in eliminating iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) in some countries. Every year, 50 million children are born without the protection that iodine offers to the growing brain and body and about 18 million suffer some significant degree of mental impairment. The World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and non-governmental organisations assist to ensure that populations at risk have access to iodised salt. This paper will review the highlights of iodine deficiency and present the experiences in the various countries in Asia, i.e. assessments of the situation, action plans, and obstacles to implementation.
Deficiency Diseases ; prevention & control ; Humans ; Iodine ; deficiency

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Anemia, Iron-Deficiency* ; Iron*

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Factor XII Deficiency* ; Humans

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Anemia, Iron-Deficiency* ; Iron*

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Anemia, Iron-Deficiency*

This 29 years old woman was admitted to the hospital with menstrual and dental bleeding. Physical examination revealed a pale brust on the legs. Laboratory data. - Hemograme: Hb: 7.5 g/dl, Hct: 22.7%, RBC: 2.86 x 1012/ l, WBC: 57.109/l hemostatic: PT: 23“7 (10”9), INR 5.86, aPTT: 32” (38”), PT¬mix 11”2 (10”9). Dosage of factor VII: 2.7%. Dosage of factor X: 102%. Diagnosis: congenital factor VII deficiency. Treatment: frozen plasma (15 ml/kg/day x 3 days) and provera 10 mg/dayx 4 days.
Congenital ; Factor VII Deficiency

Study on 69 patients were dead within 41 months following a partly or total gastroectomy due to the gastric glandular epithelioma in Viet Duc Hospital during January 1995 - June 1997 has shown that male/female (2/1), most of patient were lately admitted in which the abdominal tumor: 46.4%, pyloric stenosis: 20.3%, tumor perforation: 4.3% metastasis: 85.5%, diseases in phase III and phase IV: 85%. Nodal curettage and blood protein level is 2 factors that influence the survival time after operation.
Congenital ; Factor VII Deficiency

The research was conducted on 260 mothers from 22 to 32 years old to study knowledge, attitude and practice in prevention vitamin A deficiency at 2 communes of My Loc district, Nam Dinh province. 83,8% of the mothers understood that using vitamin A rich foods could protect against vitamin A deficiency and 47,3% of them knew about role of high dose of vitamin A capsule approach, 82,7% mothers thought that vitamin A campaign is very necessary for children. There were only 12.5% mothers used vegetables and 33,6% used cooking oil/fat regularly for their children’s meals because the majority of them thought these foods were difficult to digest in their children. The number of mothers usually prepare supplementary foods for their children with 4 food groups only was 9,1%. The number of mothers did not give their children animal food; cooking oi/fat when they suffered from measles, diarrhea and ARI was 14,3%, 28,6% and 22.5%, respectively.
Vitamin A Deficiency ; Child ; Mothers

139 subjects of 2 ethnic groups of Kinh (Hanoi) and Muong (HoaBinh) were submitted to study from October to December 2003 in order to assess the sensitivity and the specificity of the rapid test of determination of G6PD. All subjects underwent both two methods (rapid test and quantifying method) in concomittance.Results showed the sensity of 91,2% and the specificity of 97,2% in both male and female genders. For detecting G6PD defiency in male, the rapid test gave higher sensitivity and specificity than in female 97,1 and 100% respectively in male and 85,3% and 94,1% in female subjects
Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase ; deficiency ; diagnosis ;

To determine the prevalence of G6PD deficiency, the cross sectional surveys were carried out in 5922 subjects (4,043 males and 1,879 females) from 14 different ethnic groups of population in 11 provinces of Vietnam from 1996 to September 2004. Two methods with qualitative virual fluorescent test and rapid test were used. The samples from 559 individuals were independently and comparatively analyzed by two methods for calculating the Kappa index. The Kappa index of 0.081 reflected a high compatibeness of two methods. The prevalence of G6PD deficiency varied from area to area, and D6PD of males was much different from group to group population. There was no relationship between G6PD and malaria
Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase ; epidemiology ; deficiency