
Persistently high cholesterol in hypothyroid patients treated with levothyroxine. PMID: 30124904
High blood cholesterol might be a sign of hypothyroidism. Indeed, patients with hypothyroidism typically have elevated cholesterol levels because thyroid hormone regulates cholesterol metabolism. Treatment of hypothyroidism with levothyroxine promptly reduces blood cholesterol, but does it return to normal levels? It has been assumed for years that normalization of TSH levels with levothyroxine also normalizes […]