Healthy tips:Risk Factors for Thyroid Disease

The thyroid is a small gland at the bottom of the neck that helps control your body's metabolism. A medical difficulty that affects the thyroid can disrupt these key bodily processes.


  

  • Having had thyroid surgery or radiation therapy intended for thyroid.
  • Having an existing thyroid situation.
  • Having a goiter.
  • Having type 1 diabetes.
  • Having hair that turned gray in advance.
  • Having the skin condition vitiligo.