Keshan disease

English

Etymology

Named after Keshan (克山 (Kèshān)) County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.

Noun

Keshan disease (uncountable)

  1. A congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of coxsackievirus.
    • 1994, John M. C. Gutteridge, Barry Halliwell, “Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients”, in Antioxidants in Nutrition, Health, and Disease‎[1], Oxford, New York, Tokyo: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74:
      Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease.
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