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Prevalence and relative risk of other autoimmune diseases in subjects with autoimmune thyroid disease.
The American journal of medicine - 1 Feb 2010
Boelaert Kristien, Newby Paul R, Simmonds Matthew J, Holder Roger L, Carr-Smith Jacqueline D, Heward Joanne M, Manji Nilusha, Allahabadia Amit, Armitage Mary, Chatterjee Krishna V, Lazarus John H, Pearce Simon H, Vaidya Bijay, Gough Stephen C, Franklyn Jayne A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Common autoimmune disorders tend to coexist in the same subjects and to cluster in families. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional multicenter study of 3286 Caucasian subjects (2791 with Graves' disease; 495 with Hashimoto's thyroiditis) attending UK hospital thyroid clinics to quantify the prevalence of coexisting autoimmune disorders. All subjects completed a structured questionnaire seeking a...
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