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In adults, the most common reason for the thyroid to become underactive is autoimmunity. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (Hashimoto’s disease) – named after Hakuru Hashimoto, the Japanese doctor who originally described it in 1912 – is the most common type of autoimmune hypothyroidism. The other type is called ‘spontaneous atrophic hypothyroidism’, where the thyroid wastes away and shrinks. This is more likely to affect older women.