'Local salt increases thyroid incidence'
Study Says More Women Than Men Affected
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: The village salt produced in the salt pans in Goa may add a
distinctive flavour to the Goan cuisine, but it is also resulting in
increase in incidence of thyroid diseases in the state, reveals a latest
study conducted in Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC). It also reveals
that the problem of thyroid diseases is high amongst women, as compared to
men in the state.
A study on thyroid diseases was conducted by GMC's pathology department.
About 2196 samples of thyroid diseases patients were studied between 2004
and 2007. "About 95 % of patients were females, who were tested after they
complained of neck swelling. While about 25 percent detected with thyroid
diseases were in the early age group between 12 and 25, the rest were women
in the age group between 30 and 50," said Pathology department head Dr
Wiseman Pinto, who has conducted the study. Of the 8000 biopsy conducted in
a year, the thyroid biopsies comprise 10.27 %.
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