Increased Risk Of Stroke for Thyroid and Diabetes Patients!
Attention: If you or someone you know is stricken with diabetes along with low thyroid, known as hypothyroidism, then you MUST read this article. Your life may already be hanging on by a thread, a thread that your doctor doesn’t even know may be unraveling quickly.
Research has shown that diabetic patients are commonly found to have concurrent
thyroid disorders.
In comparison to the normal
population, diabetics have over 30% more hypothyroid disease, an 11% increase
in postpartum
diabetes and studies have shown that diabetics have over 5 times the
incidence of sub-clinical hypothyroid disease compared with the normal
population!
An autoimmune disease known as
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis accounts for between 70%-80% of all hypothyroid disease
cases in American adults. It is the most
common cause of hypothyroid in the adult population. In people with
hypothyroidism caused by autoimmune disease it has been found that they have,
as a group, multiple other conditions along with the hypothyroidism.
It is known that patients with one organ-specific autoimmune disease
are at risk of developing other autoimmune disorders, and because thyroid
disorders are more common in females, it is not surprising that so many female
diabetes patients have thyroid disease.
One problem that arises with
having these two conditions together is that, due to the diabetic state of
glucose dysregulation, glucose is inefficiently transported to the cells and
the metabolism of glucose is diminished. This results in an increase of glucose
in the blood stream.
As a result, the
body will convert the excess sugar to triglycerides to be stored in adipose
tissue for use as energy when it may be needed.
Because hypothyroidism decreases
the overall rate at which you burn calories (Think of the thyroid as your body's furnace) and low thyroid also slows down hormone
production, your triglycerides are more likely to remain in your fat cells
because of the lowered energy needs of the body, this is one reason many people
with low thyroid have cold hands and / or feet because the byproduct of energy
production is heat, so if the bodies “furnace”,
is functioning below what is required, one symptom could be those cold hands and feet.
Hypothyroidism may also increase
your LDL levels (low density lipoproteins, which are wrongly called our “bad”
cholesterol) by increasing the absorption of cholesterol through your liver,
preventing it from effectively eliminating excess cholesterol.
So you see, diabetes causes you
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In Health,
Dr. Walter K. Crooks DM (P), DC, CCCN
