| Humans can be hyperthyroid, and secrete too many thyroid hormones or hypothyroid, secreting too few. |
| Administer with caution to elderly or hyperthyroid individuals, pregnant women, and individuals with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. |
| Commonly, in the hyperthyroid adult, bone resorption predominates over increased bone formation with resultant loss of bone mass. |
| Subclinical hyperthyroid and hypothyroid disease are laboratory diagnoses. |
| It is recognised that hyperparathyroidism can be found in hyperthyroid patients, but the diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism in these cases is very difficult. |
| Breast feeding should not be stopped in mothers treated with thyroxine for hypothyroidism even if the infant is hyperthyroid. |
