The other day I met a gentleman with type 1 diabetes for the first time in my office. He had very few complaints and a reasonable hemoglobin A1C, but I noticed that his thyroid levels hadn’t been checked for as far back as I could see. Low and behold, the next day his blood tests revealed that he was extremely low on thyroid hormone. I immediately started him on thyroid hormone supplementation given the long term risk of heart failure in patients with untreated hypothyroidism. Afterwards, I decided to make sure that readers of this blog are aware of other autoimmune conditions which are associated with type 1 diabetes. The most common autoimmune condition which occurs alongside type 1...
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