Article
Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus with coexisting autoimmune thyroid disease in Japan.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Sept 1992
Chikuba N, Akazawa S, Yamaguchi Y, Kawasaki E, Takino H, Takao Y, Maeda Y, Okuno S, Yamamoto H, Yokota A
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is known to be a heterogenous disease which is frequently complicated with other autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD). The present study was designed to investigate the clinical characteristics and HLA antigens in Japanese Type 1 diabetic patients with AITD. Subjects were 25 Type 1 diabetic patients with AITD (13 Graves' disease and 12 Hashimoto's thyroiditis) and 32 Type 1 diabetic...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Autoantibodies
- Chi-Square Distribution
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Graves Disease
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DR Serological Subtypes
- Humans
