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Why are more older people than younger suffering from a thyroid disease?
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Cumulative loss: Auto-immune thyroid disease is fairly common, especially in women. With time thyroid tissue is destroyed by this process and with age reached a tipping point where thyroid can no longer produce enough thyroxine for good health.
Answered 4/28/2012
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