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Thyroid drug can cause osteoporosis
What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ
|Aug/Sep 2025
People taking one of the world's most prescribed drugs are at risk of developing osteoporosis, the disease that weakens bones. The drug, levothyroxine, is the standard remedy for hypothyroidism, but it's also prescribed to people with normal thyroid activity.
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins University assessed the health of 81 people with an average age of 73 who were taking levothyroxine and compared them to 364 nonusers for six years. Over that time, the people taking the drug experienced greater bone loss and
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