Could the rheumatologists be wrong? Could the secret to the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic charm lie not in her possible familial hyperlipidaemia, premature atherosclerosis and Bell’s palsy? Instead, a diagnosis of a hypothyroidism-related disease could be the answer, says Mandeep R. Mehra, a US-based hospital medical director. This would explain the thinning hair, yellow skin and […]
Could the rheumatologists be wrong? Could the secret to the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic charm lie not in her possible familial hyperlipidaemia, premature atherosclerosis and Bell’s palsy? Instead, a diagnosis of a hypothyroidism-related disease could be the answer, says Mandeep R. Mehra, a US-based hospital medical director. This would explain the thinning hair, yellow skin and possible goiter, he argues in a letter to Mayo Clinical Proceedings. Given that the subject, Lisa Gherardini, lived to the-then ripe old age of 63, we reckon she’s just happy to be alive.
