s 20 ICCIDD GLOBAL NETWORK IDDNEWSLETTER VOLUME 42 NUMBER 2 MAY 2014 China: leading the way in sustained IDD elimination 2 IDD NEWSLETTER MAY 2014 CHINA Program management and implementation – past and present Since its inception, China’s salt iodization program has been one of the most successful in the world (Box 1). The national standards for the production, wholesale, and inspection of salt...

The main objective of this study was to assess the severity of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) in the adult populations of the Baroda and Dang districts from Gujarat, western India using biochemical prevalence indicators of IDD. The other aim of this study was to establish a biochemical baseline for adequate iodine intake as a result of program evolution in the face of multiple confounding fa...

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most frequent symptoms associated with intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) and affects more than 80% population, strong psychosocial economic impacts. The main cause IDD a reduction in proteoglycan content within nucleus pulposus (NP), eventually leading to loss hydration, microarchitecture, biochemical mechanical properties. use mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs...

The spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe and its associated morbidity mortality has impacted challenged society in many ways, which resulted adapting to a new way life. One underrecognized unaddressed area is mental health essential employees providing services people with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD). Direct support professionals (DSPs) serve an important fu...

Side by side with awareness of the rights people disabilities, attention is now focusing on caregivers intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) how they enhance quality life this population group. In community-based residential facilities, these care workers provide IDD training support in activities daily living, educational social activities, a wide range medical psychological treatm...

Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) leads to low back pain (LBP). This study aimed determine the regulation of IDD by competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs). We obtained GSE63492, GSE124272, and GSE129789 datasets from Gene Expression Omnibus database. The changes long non-coding (lncRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs), mRNAs in were characterized. significantly changed subjected protein-protein interacti...

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the article of Schmitt et al reporting that infectious disease (ID) specialist intervention is associated with decreased mortality and lower healthcare costs [1]. As the result of an order of our institution, the second largest in France, we analyzed, using the French diagnosis related group (DRG) 2007–2008 database, the distribution , length of stay (LOS), r...