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Metabolic

Iodine deficiency

Balanced: 49th of 142Biggest burden: 92nd of 142Most neglected: 28th of 142

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Healthy years lost (DALYs), 2023

2.2M

95% range 1.2M to 4.0M

Deaths, 2023

Not modeled

People living with it, 2023

181.9M

GBD cause: Iodine deficiency (exact match)

Research attention

Active clinical trials

5

All clinical trials, ever

46

Papers published, 2025

147

Active trials per million healthy years lost

2.2

Lower means fewer trials for the size of the problem

What there is to build on

Open Targets has no entry for this disease, so there is no target or drug data yet.

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Trial and paper counts are rough measures of attention, not of progress. This page is for research planning, not medical advice.