appreciate you sharing that your mother was diagnosed and displayed classic symptoms related to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the most prevalent autoimmune thyroid gland and is a major cause of hypothyroidism in women ages 30-50 years. At present it is thought that Hashimoto’s disease is provoked in genetically susceptible individuals by both environmental and endogenous triggers. Genetic predisposition to development of the autoimmune thyroid diseases was established on the basis of the epidemiologic studies indicating increased prevalence of such diseases in some families, especially in twins. Female sex , fetal microchimerism (presence of fetal cells in maternal tissues which are transferred in the maternal circulation
