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Could steroids be causing high cholesterol?

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Could steroids be causing high cholesterol?

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Since high dose steroids prevent the conversion of the thyroid hormone T4 (storage hormone) to T3 (active hormone), you could have temporarily made yourself hypothyroid, which in turn causes high cholesterol.

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