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Top: Health: Conditions_and_Diseases: Endocrine_Disorders: Thyroid: Hyperthyroidism
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Sites about hyperthyroidism are welcome here. Graves' disease sites should be submitted to Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Endocrine_Disorders/Thyroid/Hyperthyroid/Graves'_Disease Sites that sell a product should be submitted to Health/Products_and_Shopping/. Sites for products or sales of health products should be submitted to Shopping/Health_and_Beauty . Site must be in the English language. Non-English sites should be submitted to the appropriate category in World. |
When the thyroid gland produces too much thyroid hormone, hyperthyroidism is the result.The most common cause of hyperthyroidism is Graves' Disease.
Other causes include thyroiditis, multinodular goiter or a tumor in the pituitary gland, although this last is quite rare.
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Graves' Disease is the leading cause of hyperthyroidism. It is an autoimmune disease of the endocrine system named after Dr. Robert Graves, the physician who first discovered the disease.
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This category is for sites that contain information about thyroid eye disease. Graves' disease sites should be submitted to Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Endocrine_Disorders/Thyroid/Hyperthyroid/Graves'_Disease Sites that sell a product should be submitted to Health/Products_and_Shopping/. Sites for products or sales of health products should be submitted to Shopping/Health_and_Beauty . Sites that contain information on other eye diseases should submit URLs to the most appropriate subcategory at Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Eye_Disorders/ Site must be in the English language. Non-English sites should be submitted to the appropriate category in World. |
Thyroid eye disease is known by many other terms, including TED, infiltrative thyroid ophthalmopathy, Graves' eye disease, Grave's ophthalmopathy, thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO), and von Basedow's ophthalmopathy.TED or TAO is an autoimmune process that was described by Graves in 1835 and by von Basedow in 1840.
Thyroid eye disease may be associated with other autoimmune disorders such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
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