Deficiency of Iodine causes:
- ANight Blindness
- BCancer
- CGoitre
- DOsteoporosis
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Correct answer: (c) Goitre
Explanation
Iodine is essential for the thyroid gland to make thyroxine hormone.
Iodine deficiency enlarges the thyroid, causing goitre, and may also lead to cretinism and hypothyroidism.
Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness and calcium deficiency causes osteoporosis, not iodine.