Chronic diseases
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Review: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Low T3
Ruiz-Núñez et al’s 2018 article, “Higher Prevalence of “Low T3 Syndrome in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” breaks down the common misconception that Low T3 syndrome only occurs in critical illness. Low T3 can also occur in a chronic state during chronic illness. A more extreme state of free T3 below reference range occurred in…
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REVIEW: Autoimmune thyroid disease in Coeliac patients
A 2018 research study recruited 341 coeliac [celiac] disease patients and found that 91 of them (26.6%) had at least one autoimmune disease. Among those 91 patients, 44 patients (48.4%) also had a diagnosis of autoimmune thyroid disease. These coeliac patients with autoimmune thyroid disease constituted 12.9% of the total sample of 341 coeliac patients.…