(Drug Offenses of State Inmates in the US, 2004) According to the US Justice Department, 27.9% of drug offenders in state prisons are serving time for possession; 69.4% are serving time for trafficking offenses; and 2.7% are in for other..
Hashimotoâs disease is one genetic condition that can cause low thyroid function, but there are others. Any chronic auto-immune disease is likely to result in impaired thyroid function and hypothyroidism.
1 Thyroid hormone levels in the blood will be low, but with mild, or subclinical hypothyroidism, the thyroid hormone levels can be in the low normal range. 2  Thyroid autoantibodies (anti-thyroid peroxidase and antithyroglobulin autoantibodies).