Deficiency of iodine in the diet causes which disease?
A. Anaemia
B. Rickets
C. Goitre
D. Beriberi
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Answer: C. Goitre
Answer: (C) Goitre
Iodine is needed to make the thyroid hormone thyroxine; its lack causes goitre (swelling of the thyroid). Anaemia is linked to iron, rickets to vitamin D and beriberi to vitamin B1.
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