What causes or increases my risk of having subclinical hypothyroidism?
• Autoimmune disease: The immune system is the part of your body that fights infection. A problem with the immune system may make your body attack even its own cells. The most common autoimmune disease that may cause this condition is Hashimoto disease. • Family history: Having a family member with thyroid disease or autoimmune disease may increase your risk. • Medicines: Taking medicines to treat hyperthyroidism (too much thyroid hormone), or not having enough thyroid hormone medicines to treat hypothyroidism. • Treatments: Radiation therapy used to treat cancers of the head and neck can cause problems with the thyroid gland. Surgery done to remove all or part of the thyroid gland make you more likely to develop this thyroid problem. • Other diseases: These include having diabetes (high blood sugar) or conditions affecting the pituitary, hypothalamus, or thyroid gland. What are the signs and symptoms of subclinical hypothyroidism? You may have no signs and symptoms, or you may have ge
