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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- 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 ...
- Thyroid Disorders (For Kids) (Nemours Foundation)Thyroid Diseases/Children ... Thyroid Diseases
- Thyroid Eye Disorders (American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus)Thyroid Diseases/Specifics ... Thyroid Diseases ... GLOSSARY, TERMS, ACRONYMS, PHRASES, DEFINITIONS, DICTIONARY ... Shows a single glossary entry ... American Association ...
- Thyroid Tests (National Library of Medicine)... the blood). This test may help diagnose autoimmune thyroid disorders. Imaging tests include: CT scans Ultrasound Nuclear medicine tests, including: Thyroid scan. It uses small amounts of radioactive material ...
- 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
- Older Patients and Thyroid Disease (American Thyroid Association)Thyroid Diseases/Older Adults ... Thyroid Diseases ... American Thyroid Association
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Thyroid Disease (CAM) (American Thyroid Association)Thyroid Diseases/Treatments and Therapies ... Thyroid Diseases ... American Thyroid Association
- Thyroid Diseases/Women ... Thyroid Diseases ... Hyperthyroidism/Women ... Hyperthyroidism ... Health Problems in Pregnancy/Related Issues ... Health Problems in Pregnancy ... National ...
- ... iodine. Iodine might help prevent or treat some thyroid disorders. Fucus vesiculosus also might have antidiabetic effects and affect hormone levels. People use Fucus vesiculosus for thyroid disorders, obesity, aging skin, constipation, and many other conditions, ...
- ... Thyroid antibodies test to help diagnose an autoimmune thyroid disorder, such as: Graves' disease, the most common cause ... www.merckmanuals.com/professional/endocrine-and-metabolic-disorders/thyroid-disorders/overview-of-thyroid-function National Heart, Lung, and ...
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