Discover how your diet impacts thyroid health, from iodine balance to gut health, and learn how to make thyroid-friendly food ...

Thyroid storm causes an increased heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature. It may occur in people with hyperthyroidism. It can be life threatening without treatment. Thyroid storm, also ...

Hyperthyroidism is diagnosed via thyroid blood test, Doppler ultrasound, and a thyroid uptake and scan. The prognosis with treatment — given early detection — is excellent. “Hyperthyroidism ...

MANY patients receive iodine-containing medication that can alter the results of concomitantly performed determinations of radioiodine uptake or serum protein-bound iodine. When the iodine is an ...

Benign disease patients normally have an intact thyroid, with high uptake, and they will have the slowest clearance. The next most significant pathway is saliva. This will manifest in contamination of ...