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Thyroid Diseases

Your thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland in the front of your neck. It makes hormones that control the way the body uses energy. These hormones affect nearly every organ in your body and control many of your body's most important functions. For example, they affect your breathing, heart rate, weight, digestion, and moods.

Thyroid diseases cause your thyroid to make either too much or too little of the hormones. Some of the different thyroid diseases include:

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  1. Thyroid Diseases (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... your breathing, heart rate, weight, digestion, and moods. Thyroid diseases cause your thyroid to make either too much ... little of the hormones. Some of the different thyroid diseases include: Goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland ...
  2. Thyroid Disease (Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health)  
    Thyroid Diseases/Start Here ... Thyroid Diseases ... Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health
  3. Thyroid Diseases/Treatments and Therapies ... Thyroid Diseases ... American Thyroid Association
  4. Thyroid Tests (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... to diagnose and help find the cause of thyroid diseases such as hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Thyroid tests include blood tests and imaging tests. Blood ...
  5. Thyroid Disease (for Parents) (Nemours Foundation)  
    thyroid, disease, disorder, diseases, disorders, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, overactive, underactive, neck, swollen, hormone, hormones, graves disease, hashimoto disease, immunity, ...
  6. Thyroid Disease in the Older Patient (American Thyroid Association)  
    Thyroid Diseases/Older Adults ... Thyroid Diseases ... American Thyroid Association
  7. Thyroid Disease & Pregnancy From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)  
    Hyperthyroidism/Women ... Hyperthyroidism ... Thyroid Diseases/Women ... Thyroid Diseases ... Health Problems in Pregnancy/Related Issues ... Health Problems in Pregnancy ... National ...
  8. ClinicalTrials.gov: Thyroid Diseases From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Thyroid Diseases/Clinical Trials ... Thyroid Diseases
  9. ... HASHIMOTO THYROIDITIS PubMed Dong YH, Fu DG. Autoimmune thyroid disease: mechanism, genetics and current knowledge. Eur Rev Med ... Tomer Y. Cutting edge: the etiology of autoimmune thyroid diseases. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 2011 Oct;41(2): ...
  10. Selenium From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements)  
    ... of or treat cognitive decline in older adults. Thyroid disease The thyroid gland has high amounts of selenium ... can help treat or reduce the risk of thyroid disease is not clear. More research is needed to ...
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