BellaOnline Forums Health and Fitness Thyroid Health Hi Jim

jellybean33,

Thanks so much for the kind comments, I'm glad the articles have been helpful! You ask a really great question.
I in fact mention something about inherited thyroid disease in the main feature article that is up on the Thyroid Health main page right now, in regard to the Epstein-Barr Virus connection to autoimmune thyroiditis. Here's a quote from that:

"Thyroid disease, especially the autoimmune type runs in families, in fact children of one parent that has thyroid disease, has a 50% chance of also developing thyroid disease during their lifetime. Hossein Gharib, M.D., F.A.C.E, president-elect of AACE and Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Medical School states; �Fifty percent of thyroid disease patients� offspring will inherit the thyroid disease gene.�

I actually didn't know that chances for children of thyroid disease parents were at 50% risk until I found that quote from the MD above. I knew it was a high percentage risk but 50% was surprizing. That's not great news for children of thyroid disease parents but shows the importance of getting blood tested at any point thyroid type symptoms arise and if they don't manifest earlier, to start getting tested at age 35 regardless. Some reputable thyroid statistics state that between ages 35 and 40 is a common age for the onset of thyroid disease.
Educate yourself about thyroid disease symptoms, so that you can recognize when there is a need to be tested, before age 35. Here is the link to an article, where I list symptoms of thyroid disease, both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.

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