Prevalence of Goiter in rural area of Belgaum district, Karnataka | Zendy

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Prevalence of Goiter in rural area of Belgaum district, Karnataka

Author(s) -

KS Ganesh,

Raghavendra C. Kamath,

Vinod Bhat,

Raghavendra Rao,

Das Acharya,

Asha Kamath

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

indian journal of community medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375

H-Index - 32

eISSN - 1998-3581

pISSN - 0970-0218

DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.45373

Subject(s) - goiter , medicine , iodine deficiency , logistic regression , population , public health , environmental health , iodised salt , demography , veterinary medicine , thyroid , pathology , sociology

To determine the prevalence of goiter and to study the factors influencing goiter among people of the rural community in Karnataka state, a community based study. Setting and Study Design: A cross sectional study was carried out to find out the prevalence of goiter in a rural community of Belgaum district. The study was conducted by house-to-house survey for a period of one month.

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