According to the New Zealand Dermatological Society (NZDS), symptoms that may be related to an overactive thyroid gland include increased skin smoothness and moistness, warm skin, generalized itching (pruritus), hives (urticaria), increased skin pigmentation and a flushing of the face and hands.nderactive Thyroid Effects. An underactive thyroid can cause a condition known as hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism can affect the skin in a number of ways. A condition known as carotenaemia may develop, characterized by the skin turning yellowish in color. The skin may also become cold, pale and dry.
In 1952, he was elected to the Senate. In 1960, Kennedy won the party's presidential nomination and defeated Richard Nixon in the subsequent election that same year. At 43, he was the country's youngest president as well as its first Catholic head of state.
John F. Kennedy was elected president in one of the closest elections in United States history. Kennedy's popular vote margin over Nixon was 118,550 out of a total of nearly 69 million votes cast. His success in many urban and industrial states gave him a clear majority of 303 to 219 in the electoral vote. Kennedy was the youngest elected president, the only Catholic and the first born in the twentieth century.