They also used World Health Organization spreadsheets «that would tell us how many people would develop cardiovascular disease or
mild mental retardation from those levels,» sayslead author Kevin Chatham - Stephens, a pediatrician at The Mount Sinai Hospital who focuses on environmental health.
Not exact matches
Other proposed changes run the gamut
from eliminating the term «
mental retardation» — to be replaced with a new «intellectual disability» category — to introducing diagnoses such as «psychosis risk syndrome» and «
mild neurocognitive disorder,» which are designed to catch patients in the early stages of a disorder.
Children with even
mild iodine deficiency can suffer
from stunted growth,
mental retardation, lowered IQ, problems in movement, speech or hearing.