the findings support the conclusion that the increased incidence of phyerthyroidism in tasmania was due to an increased supply of iodine to patients with latent hyperthyroidism whose thyroid glands , due to the presence of toxid nodule ( s ) or thyroid-stimulating autoantibodies , were unresponsive to control by tsh deprivation .
C0020550
hyperthyroidism
C0040132
thyroid