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Information × Registration Number 0302U007569, 0102U005696 , R & D reports Title Development of preventive measures, directed on decrease of thyroid pathology at children and teenagers who have undergone combined action of radiation because of Chernobyl accident and other ecological factors. popup.stage_title Обстеження дітей і підлітків Сквирського району з метою виявлення у них тиреоїдної патології. Відбір з обстежених 300 дітей і підлітків з дифузним зобом. Head Bebeshko V., Sivachenko T., Registration Date 03-01-2003 Organization Research Centre for Radiation Medicine popup.description2 Study subject: 4,028 children and adolescents born in 1984 - 1996, from Skvira region of Kiev province. Study objective: thyroid pathology prevalence evaluation in children and adolescents from Skvira region exposed to combined impact of ionizing radiation and environmental iodine deficiency both with that of environmental iodine deficiency and other factors. Selection of 300 children suffering diffuse goitre. Study methods: clinical examination, thyroid ultrasound imaging, daily iodine excretion assay. Study results. Examination of kids and adolescents 16 years after the Chernobyl disaster revealed the high value of thyroid pathology incidence. Thyroid pathology was revealed in 584 persons from those 4,028 involved in the study (14.5%). Diffuse goitre of 1st - 2nd degree possesses the leading position in thyroid pathology structure. Three settlements in Skvira region are located within zone of intensive radiation control (zone IV) resided by 412 kids and adolescents. High incidence of thyroid pathology (62.8%) was revealed among 315 of them been exposed to low radiation doses on the environmental iodine deficiency background. Metabolic iodine deficiency was revealed in 84.2% of children and adolescents from Skvira region, at that urine iodine concentration was under 20 ?g/L in 20% of them. The 380 children with goitre of 1st - 2nd degree were selected from those 584 ones with established diagnosis aiming thyroid pathology prevention programs elaboration through the detailed clinical examination according to unified protocol with further iodine deficiency correction. Product Description popup.authors popup.nrat_date 2020-04-02 Close