Demetrios A. Koutras
“Goiter” means thyroid enlargement, and “endemic” means frequent in a certain locality. The problem is from what volume and up a thyroid is considered to be large enough as to be classified as goiter and also from what prevalence and up an area is considered to be endemic. It is obvious that by playing with these definitions one may increase or decrease …
Leonidas H. Duntas, Christos Doumas
Several studies have revealed an increased incidence of thyroid cancer in volcanic areas around the world. Hawaii and the Philippines on the rim of the Pacific Ocean, where the greatest number of volcanoes are located at convergent plate boundaries, are among the regions with the highest incidence of thyroid carcinoma worldwide. Iceland is another region also rich in volcanoes …
John Doupis, Charalambos Stavrianos, Katerina Saltiki, Emily Mantzou, Antonios Mastrokostopoulos, George Philippou, Maria Alevizaki
Albania is an in-transition country in the Balkan area and among those with the lowest per capita income in Europe. The Health System of Albania, as the Albanian society itself, is now taking its first steps in adopting the Western financial model. Globalization in modern Western society, even at the level of dietary practices …