| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Health"],"appCategory":"Health","appBody":"<p><strong>The most frequent cause of hypothyroidism is autoimmune thyroid disease or \"Hashimoto's disease.</strong></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Hashimoto's disease is caused by the erroneous manufacture by the immune system of antibodies directed against the thyroid gland. These antibodies bind to the thyroid tissue, and attract lymphocytes producing an inflammation known as autoimmune thyroiditis.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>The causes of autoimmune thyroid disease are not known, it is believed that genetic predisposition plays a role as an environmental cause (it could be an infectious agent, a toxic agent, an exposure to thyroid proteins - for example in pregnancy-) .</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Autoimmune thyroiditis is a chronic condition, sometimes in the same patient can be the two sides of the coin: hypo and autoimmune hyperthyroidism, but it is very unusual to occur hyperthyroidism when the first manifestation has been 'hypothyroidism.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>There are other causes of hypothyroidism:</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Subacute thyroiditis (of a non-autoimmune nature) is thought to be viral. It usually takes pain and in an initial phase hyperthyroidism is usually detected, the gland is usually hard and painful.</p>\n<p>Destruction or atrophy of the gland secondary to radiotherapy of nearby tissues (neck, breast)</p>\n<p>Drugs that interfere with hormonal production.</p>\n<p>Alteration in the pituitary gland that involves deficit in the production of the thyroid stimulating hormone or TSH</p>\n<p>Treatment of previous hyperthyroidism by radioactive iodine or surgery</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3phge87x","appParentAuthor":"ifunanyasuberu","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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