Sentences with phrase «autoimmune thyroid disease compared»

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A study compared breastfed babies to soy - formula - fed babies and found that the prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease was 31 percent in soy - formula versus only 12 percent in breastfed babies.

However, a retrospective epidemiological study by Fort, et al. showed that teenaged children with a diagnosis of autoimmune thyroid disease were significantly more likely to have received soy formula as infants (18 out of 59 children; 31 percent) when compared to healthy siblings (nine out of 76, 12 percent) or control group children (seven out of 54; 13 percent).

With time many Hashimoto's patients do not see much difference compared to being on T4 - only medication, using desiccated thyroid or a combined T4 and T3 therapy because the autoimmune attack and destruction of the thyroid gland remain in progress and put them at the additional risk to develop another autoimmune disease.