Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT), a chronic autoimmune disease caused by an interaction between genetic factors and the environmental is treated by thyroid supplementation as the first line of treatment. However, many of the symptoms are unrelated to the failing thyroid function, but seem to be connected to the autoimmune disease, remain. Literature has reported on many of the environmental triggers of autoimmune response, however patients do not have a unified wa...

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the most common autoimmune condition, with increasing number of people being diagnosed and experiencing varying ranges of symptomes and intensities. This makes the diagnosis as well as treatment challenging. The benefit of preventive health management strategies has been successfully working for diabetes type 2, where condition is managed through implementation of healthy lifestyle and patient-doctor shared decision making. Health care today is ...