Graves’ Disease
Posted in Diseases And Treatment on October 5th, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment
Graves’ disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your thyroid gland and further causes it to overproduce the hormone thyroxine. This higher in thyroxine level can greatly increase your metabolic rate, which may affect you in many ways, from your moods to your physical appearance. Graves’ disease is also known as diffuse thyrotoxic goiter. This disease is rarely life-threatening. Though it may develop at any age in either of men or women, but is most common in the women over the age 20. Generalized diffuse overactivity of the entire thyroid gland, get enlarged into a goiter.