Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00009:reg:9:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00009
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 6677–8808

be due to consuming foods, dietary supplements or medications with a high content of iodine.
Note 2: iodine excess is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(13)      taking a drug from the specified list of drugs within the 1 year before the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
Note: specified list of drugs is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(14)      being treated with alemtuzumab or antithymocyte globulin within the 10 years before the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
(15)      taking amiodarone for a continuous period of at least 6 weeks, within the 1 year before the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
(16)      undergoing a course of therapeutic radiation for cancer, where the thyroid gland was in the field of radiation, within the 25 years before the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
(17)      having received iodine-131 (radioactive iodine) for the treatment of nodular goitre within the 10 years before the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
(18)      having smoked tobacco products:
(a)          in an amount of at least 5 pack-years before the clinical worsening of Graves disease; and
(b)          if smoking has ceased before the clinical worsening of Graves disease, then that worsening occurred within 5 years of cessation;
Note: one pack-year is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(19)      being pregnant or within the 18 months postpartum at the time of the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
(20)      having ethanol injection into the thyroid gland for the treatment of a thyroid adenoma within the 6 months before the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
(21)      having trauma to the eye within the 6 months before the clinical worsening of Graves disease;
Note: Trauma to the eye may include blunt or penetrating physical injury to the eye.
(22)      for thyrotoxic crisis only, having an acute precipitating event within the 48 hours before that clinical worsening of Graves disease;
Note: acute precipitating event and thyrotoxic crisis are defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
(23)      inability to obtain appropriate clinical management for Graves disease.