先天性甲状腺机能低下症(即克汀病)是可以治疗的疾病,其智力发育的好坏与开始治疗的时间有很大关系,所以都渴望早期诊断,早期治疗。故强调大量普查的重要性。在日本,入江、宫井等从1975年开始应用滤纸片法测定血液中 TSH 进行普查。大阪地区三年里应用 TSH 成对测定法在90,200 Congenital hypothyroidism (that is, cretinism) is a treatable disease, and its intellectual development is good and bad time to start treatment has a great relationship, so are eager to early diagnosis and early treatment. It emphasizes the importance of a large number of censuses. In Japan, into the river, Miyagi, etc. from the beginning of 1975, the filter paper method for determination of TSH in blood for census. Three-year application of the TSH paired assay in the Osaka area at 90,200