Portrait by Eugène Trutat (1840–1910) of a man with congenital iodine deficiency syndrome. The photograph is titled Joseph le crétin (Joseph the Cretin). Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome is a medical condition present at birth marked by impaired physical and mental development, due to insufficient thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) often caused by insufficient dietary iodine during pregnancy. It is one cause of underactive thyroid function at birth, called congenital hypothyroidism, and also referred to as cretinism. If untreated, it results in impairment of both physical and mental develop

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Portrait by Eugène Trutat (1840–1910) of a man with congenital iodine deficiency syndrome. The photograph is titled Joseph le crétin (Joseph the Cretin). Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome is a medical condition present at birth marked by impaired physical and mental development, due to insufficient thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) often caused by insufficient dietary iodine during pregnancy. It is one cause of underactive thyroid function at birth, called congenital hypothyroidism, and also referred to as cretinism. If untreated, it results in impairment of both physical and mental development. #/media/File:Joseph_le_cr%C3%

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