July is Graves’ Disease Awareness Month. Graves’ disease is an autoimmune condition that mainly affects your thyroid. Prompt diagnosis and treatment is important because, without treatment, the disease can lead to serious health problems such as heart failure and osteoporosis. This is especially important to note because women and people assigned female at birth are at higher risk for Graves’ disease as well as heart failure and osteoporosis.People with Graves’ disease can experience a wide range of symptoms, but some of the most recognizable signs are swelling in the neck around the thyroid a...

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