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Causes

Causes include:

• Hashimoto's thyroiditis (E06.3)
• Graves-Basedow disease (E05.0)
• Inborn errors of thyroid hormone synthesis, causing congenital hypothyroidism (E03.0)
• Thyroiditis (acute, chronic) (E06)
• Side-effects of pharmacological therapy (E03.2); Potassium iodide
• Thyroid cancer
• Iodine deficiency.