Using at least 5 facts, compare and contrast Grave's disease and Hashimoto's disease.
Similarities: Graves and hashimoto's both are auto-immune disorder
Both are caused due to defect in the thyroid gland
Differences:
Graves disease is due to hyperthyroidism and hashimoto's thyroiditis is due to hypothyroidism
Pathological finding in graves disease is hyperplasia of thyroid cells and in hashimoto's disease it is due to follicular atrophy
Goiter is always present in graves disease and sometimes in hashimoto's disease
Graves disease is single staged and in hashimoto's it is two staged
Graves disease is treated by taking anti-thyroid drugs and levothyroxine for hashimoto's disease
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