Title: thorough but biased
Review: Elaine's book is a thorough review of causes for this disease and some of the mainstream treatments for this disease. Her suggestion about self-care is helpful. However, her opinion is biased about RAI treatment that focused on some risks based assumptions or some selected personal stories instead of facts from large scale clinical trials. This bias might give patients a disillusion about the rate of successful remission without relapse with anti-thyroid medications which have been repeatly shown in many studies that only had modest efficacy (20-40%). The comment about the role of TSI in prediction of remission is over emphasized, which only has limited value in prediction while many other factors should be considered. Only relying on the knowledge from this book and using it as the only reference for treatment can be dangerous.
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