Check For Hypothyroidism

Name: Check For Hypothyroidism
Uploaded: 2025-01-07T17:00:35+00:00
Duration: 19 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short spoken clinical remark advising that hypothyroidism is associated with weight gain and other symptoms, is easy to check with blood tests, and is…

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Short spoken clinical remark advising that hypothyroidism is associated with weight gain and other symptoms, is easy to check with blood tests, and is straightforward to treat with medications despite some controversies about optimal drugs. The speaker recommends treating thyroid disease in hypothyroid patients who are overweight.

Something that we don't clinically treat here, but hypothyroidism is associated with weight gain, typically, and other symptoms as well. And this is something very easy to check this blood work for it, very easy to treat. There's medications that work, and there's certain controversies about what medications are the best. But if you're hypothyroid and you're overweight, you definitely should be treating your thyroid disease.