Obesity And Graves’Disease, Possible Association

Abstract

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease causing hyperthyroidism and goiter in most cases. As thyroid hormone controls body
metabolism, so extra thyroid hormone could be associated with a high basal metabolic rate, leading to weight loss. But in some cases
of hyperthyroidism there is a weight gain development instead of weight loss. The present study was conducted on (101) patients
already diagnosed with Graves’ disease for evaluating there TSH levels and its relation with BMI. The results show that about three
quarters of the sample gender ware females (72.28%) and about (48.5%) of total cases have obesity, (19.8%) have over weight with a
significant correlation between TSH levels and BMI.