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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Arming Yourself with Thyroid Health Information | |
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| Meet Your Thyroid Gland: A Beautiful Butterfly | |
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| How Your Thyroid Works | |
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| Thyroid Disorders and Treatments: An Overview | |
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| Slowing Down: Hypothyroidism | |
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| Symptoms of Hypothyroidism | |
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| Diagnosing Hypothyroidism | |
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| Common Causes of Hypothyroidism | |
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| Treating Hypothyroidism | |
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| Feeling Hypothyroid When Your Tests Are Normal | |
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| Speeding Up: Thyrotoxicosis and Hyperthyroidism | |
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| Signs of Thyrotoxicosis | |
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| Graves' Disease: The Most Common Cause of Hyperthyroidism | |
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| Other Causes of Thyrotoxicosis | |
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| Diagnosing Thyrotoxicosis and/or Hyperthyroidism | |
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| Treating Thyrotoxicosis Not Caused by Graves' Disease | |
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| Thyroiditis: Inflammation of the Thyroid Gland | |
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| Subacute Viral Thyroiditis: Pain in the Neck! | |
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| Silent Thyroiditis | |
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| Postpartum Thyroiditis | |
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| Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis | |
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| Riedel's Thyroiditis | |
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| Thyroid Nodules: Lumps in the Thyroid Gland | |
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| Finding a Thyroid Nodule | |
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| Evaluating a Nodule | |
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| Types of Thyroid Nodules | |
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| Who Should Be Screened for Thyroid Nodules? | |
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| Thyroid Cancer: A Beginner's Guide | |
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| What Causes Thyroid Cancer? | |
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| Signs of Thyroid Cancer | |
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| Types of Thyroid Cancer | |
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| Staging and Spreading | |
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| Treating Common Types of Thyroid Cancer | |
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| What You Should Know About Thyroidectomy | |
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| Follow-Up Scans and Tests | |
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| Thyroid Hormone Suppression Therapy | |
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| Treating Recurrence | |
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| Complications, Other Conditions, and Comorbidities: When Other Stuff Happens, Too | |
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| Thyroid Eye Disease | |
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| Depression or Anxiety: Could It Be My Thyroid? | |
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| Heart Disease and Thyroid Disease: A Troublesome Duo | |
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| Fatigue: Sleep Disorder or Thyroid Disease? | |
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| Menopause and Thyroid Disease | |
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| Thyroid Disease After Sixty | |
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| The Autoimmune Disease Collection Package | |
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| Thyroid Disease and New Life: Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Neonatal Issues | |
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| Thyroid Disease and Fertility | |
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| Normal Pregnancy Discomforts: How They Relate to Thyroid Disease | |
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| Pregnancy and Preexisting Thyroid Disease | |
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| Gestational Thyroid Disease | |
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| Discovering Thyroid Nodules During Pregnancy | |
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| After the Baby Is Born | |
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| Thyroid Disease in Newborns and Infants | |
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| Hot Stuff: A Beginner's Guide to Radioactive Iodine | |
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| What Is Radioactive Iodine? | |
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| Nuclear Testing with Radioactive Iodine | |
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| Radioactive Iodine Treatment | |
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| Helping the Medicine Go Down: Thyroid Hormone Replacement and Other Medications | |
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| A Brief History of Thyroid Hormone Replacement | |
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| Synthetic Versus "Natural" Thyroid Hormone: A Reality Check | |
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| Twenty-First-Century Thyroid Hormone Therapy | |
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| When You Must Take T3 | |
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| What to Eat: Diet, Nutrition, and Thyroid Disease | |
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| Diet and Iodine | |
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| The Low-Iodine Diet | |
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| The Hypothyroid Diet for Life: Low Glycemic Index, Low Fat, and High Fiber | |
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| The Hyperthyroid Diet | |
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| Thyroid Disease and Obesity | |
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| Complementary Activities and Therapies: When You Need a Massage | |
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| Becoming Active | |
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| For Your Mental Health | |
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| Feel-Good Therapies That Work! | |
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| How to Assess Thyroid Books, Websites, and Other Resources | |
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| Legitimate Thyroid Resources for Patients | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |