New China net Beijing on September 8 special news (Zhou Tingyu, Ding Ke rather) medical department disease controlled bureau assistant commissioner Bai Huqun recently held “iodine deficiency disease effective control strategy seminar” on to point out that at present the nation still had 341 counties (city, area and flag) the resident qualified iodized salt edible rate has not achieved eliminates the iodine deficiency disease the standard.

    Bai Huqun said that the iodine deficiency disease is the human body iodine malnutrition which natural environment iodine deficiency creates, then initiates the local goiter and local cretinism, deaf-mute, miscarriage and congenital malformation and so on a series of pathological change’s general name. Should the sickness most serious harm affects the irreversibility mental handicap which the embryo brain growth creates, at present threatens the population to be most, and harm consequence most serious endemic disease.

    He said that China once was in world one of iodine deficiency disease popularly most serious countries. In recent years, through implementing all the people popularized the iodized salt strategy and start to take all the people to popularize the iodized salt as the key measure elimination iodine deficiency disease work and many other measures, Our country Crowd present iodine nutritional level overall is suitable for the condition, the resident qualified iodized salt edible rate, the child hypothyroidism rate and urine iodine level, the overall achieves international eliminated the iodine deficiency disease the target request.

    “But our country also has 8 provinces to be in has not realized or has basically realized to eliminate the iodine deficiency disease stage goal.”Bai Huqun said that in addition also some 341 counties’ resident qualified iodized salt edible rates was lower than 90%, the nation has 5% still to suffer iodine deficiency harm to 10% populations, by Hainan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai and other province questions was most prominent.

    “Practice confirmed that the iodine deficiency disease is one kind of cause of disease explicit preventability disease, the edible iodized salt is prevents and controls the iodine deficiency disease safe and effective, economical and convenience fundamental measure.”Bai Huqun said that for the effective improvement high risk area key crowd’s iodine nutritional status, maximum limit prevents to send the occurrence of cretinism newly, medical department and other departments in 2008 in Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai and other 124 iodine deficiency disease high-risk counties in the province (area), adopted the emergency strengthening to make up the iodine measure to the woman of child-bearing age at the right moment, but also in May in Liaoning, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian organized to carry out the coastal area crowd iodine nutritional status investigation.

    Bai Huqun said that the iodine deficiency disease seriously affected the ward human quality, is ward populace “because of the poor pathogenesis and sends poor and returns because of sickness poor the important attribute because of sickness”. “Our country will follow ` acts as circumstances permit, science to make up the iodine and classified guidance’ the prevention and control strategy, the dynamic evaluation crowd iodine nutritional status, the strengthening monitors and prevents and controls the intervention measure the organic synthesis, adopts the pointed strong special operational policy measures order advancement prevention iodine deficiency disease work.”