Iodised salt Iodised salt Iodised salt (also spelled iodized salt) is table salt mixed with a minute amount of various salts of the element iodine. The ingestion of iodine prevents iodine deficiency. Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects about two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Deficiency also causes thyroid gland problems, including "endemic goitre." In many countries, iodine deficiency is a major public health problem that can be cheaply addressed by purposely adding small amounts of iodine to the sodium chloride salt. Iodine is a micronutrient and dietary mineral that is naturally present in the food
Aromatase deficiency the low oestrogen will predispose those with the condition to osteoporosis. Symptoms are generally manifested in adulthood: During gestation, a baby with Aromatase Deficiency can cause a mother to become virilised by causing the deepening of the voice, cystic acne, cliteromegaly, and hirsutism. The mother also has an increased level of circulating testosterone. However, the symptoms normally regress post-partum. Aromatase deficiency is an autosomal recessive disease with most of the mutations occur along the highly conservative regions of the gene. Both homozygous and heterozygous mutations have been identified along various location of the exon on the P450 arom (CYP19) gene