11. It takes months of too little iodine to produce iodine deficiency . 12. Excess iodine has symptoms similar to those of iodine deficiency . 13. Studies have also shown a relationship between iodine deficiency and lower IQs, she added. 14. Deficiency of deiodinase can mimic hypothyroidism due to iodine deficiency . 15. Iodine deficiency is also linked to weaker ( less detectable ) forms of bromism.16. Forty-eight percent of children born in Afghanistan are mentally impaired because of iodine deficiency . 17. Iodine deficiency stunts growth and causes goiter and mental disability.18. Rao also asserted that iodine deficiency is largely confined to the country's hilly regions. 19. WHO research suggests iodine deficiency accounts for losses of between 10 15 IQ points. 20. Iodine deficiency results in the impairments in varying degrees of physical and mental development.
