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Thyroid
Disease: The Numbers
How Common
Is Thyroid Disease?
Information
collected by: Dr Robert Carlson
Provided by: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists:
Annual Thyroid Awareness Campaign
When the AACE established new TSH Guidelines (0.3 - 3.0 vs. 0.5 - 5.0)
the number of people estimated to be affected by abnormal thyroid
function doubled.
According
to the AACE, the number of people affected by
Thyroid
Disease now surpasses the number of people diagnosed with Diabetes or
Heart Disease.
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27
Million:
The number of Americans
estimated to suffer from Thyroid Disease.
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13
Million:
The number of Americans
estimated to suffer from Thyroid Disease...but remain undiagnosed.
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14
Million:
Estimated number of Americans
affected by Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (Autoimmune Thyroiditis /
Hypothyroidism).
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8 out of
10:
Patients with Thyroid Disease
are women.
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5x - 8x:
Women are 5 to 8 times more
likely to suffer from Hypothyroidism than men.
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25%:
Approximate number of women that will develop permanent
Hypothyroidism.
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