Affecting up to one in ten French people, thyroid damage is much more frequent and better known than acromegaly, Cushing's disease and Addison's disease, but this does not prevent delays in diagnosis from existing. .
In case of hypothyroidism for example, weight gain is accompanied by great fatigue, too often put on the account of overwork.
It is therefore rather a swollen face and body that should arouse suspicion.
"The face is white-yellow, the hair becomes thinner and more fragile and sometimes the eyebrows lose their tails... Signs that can be wrongly attributed to aging alone",
notes Prof. Thierry Brue, endocrinologist and coordinator of the reference center for rare diseases of the pituitary gland (CRMR hypo) in Marseille.
Since women are more often affected, the risk of putting hypothyroidism on the account of their menopause is also real.
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