Can Vitamin D Deficiency Cause Hypothyroidism?
That was the question asked by a team of researchers in Turkey, who found that people with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (hypothyroidism) were far more likely to have low blood levels of vitamin D than healthy people. They also found that those with the lowest levels of vitamin D also had the worst symptoms.
This result isn’t all that surprising, because vitamin D already has been linked to many different autoimmune diseases — and now there’s one more.
References
"Relative Vitamin D Insufficiency in Hashimoto's Thyroiditis." Thyroid. 2011 Jul 13. [Epub ahead of print] Tamer G, Arik S, Tamer I, Coksert D. Source: Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Goztepe Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
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