Endemic goitre in the Sudan despite long-standing programmes for the control of iodine deficiency disorders
Abdel Monim MH Medani, Abdelsalam A Elnour & Amal M Saeed
Volume 89, Number 2, February 2011, 121-126
Table 1. Goitre prevalence (GP) in schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years from selected cities in the Sudan, June–November 2006
| City | No. of children |
GP (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| With goitre | Without goitre | Total | ||
| Wau | 255 | 261 | 516 | 49.4 |
| Elfasir | 435 | 224 | 659 | 66.0 |
| Nyala | 307 | 172 | 479 | 64.1 |
| Dmazine | 140 | 382 | 522 | 26.9 |
| Kosti | 407 | 117 | 524 | 77.7 |
| Atbra | 150 | 495 | 645 | 23.3 |
| Khartoum | 71 | 426 | 497 | 14.3 |
| Khartoum north | 89 | 430 | 519 | 17.2 |
| Omdurman | 72 | 517 | 589 | 12.2 |
| Dongla | 207 | 272 | 479 | 43.2 |
| Port Sudan | 228 | 426 | 654 | 34.9 |
| Total | 2361 | 3722 | 6083 | 38.8 |