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                                                    <title><![CDATA[Harvard Health Posts by Jeffrey Garber, MD, FACP, MACE Feed]]></title>
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                                <subtitle>Harvard Health Blog: You'll find posts from Harvard Medical School physicians and our editors on a variety of health news and issues.</subtitle>
                                                    <updated>2020-09-28T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
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            <title><![CDATA[Treating mild hypothyroidism: Benefits still uncertain]]></title>
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                    <name><![CDATA[Jeffrey Garber, MD, FACP, MACE]]></name>
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                <![CDATA[More than 10 million adults in the US have hypothyroidism — when the thyroid gland fails to produce enough thyroid hormone to meet the body’s needs — but the vast majority of these cases are considered mild. Whether or not to treat mild hypothyroidism is an ongoing debate. There is a possible link between mild hypothyroidism and coronary artery disease, but researchers found that treating it in older people did not provide any benefit.]]>
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                        <updated>2020-09-28T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is there a role for surgery in treating Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?]]></title>
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                    <name><![CDATA[Jeffrey Garber, MD, FACP, MACE]]></name>
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                <![CDATA[A small European study compared standard treatment for the autoimmune condition Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (thyroid medication) with surgery to remove the thyroid. Those who had surgery saw significant improvement.]]>
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                        <updated>2019-08-12T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
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