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hyperthyroidism
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hyperthyroidism

Overactivity of the thyroid gland due to enlargement or tumour. Symptoms include accelerated heart rate, sweating, anxiety, tremor, and weight loss. Treatment is by drugs or surgery.



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In the elderly, these classical symptoms may not be present and they may present only with fatigue and weight loss leading to apathetic hyperthyroidism.
One symptom or one clinical feature of thyroid disease in the elderly may be overwhelming in its presentation, as in apathetic hyperthyroidism, thyroid myopathy, and so forth.
Any competency report, for example, must include mention of the patient's thyroid-stimulating hormone levels, since either hypothyroidism or apathetic hyperthyroidism can appear as incompetence m the elderly.
 
 
 
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