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Increased prevalence of anti-thyroid antibodies in patients with limited scleroderma.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2011
Danielides S, Mavragani C P, Katsakoulas I, Zintzaras E, Drosos A A, Vlachoyiannopoulos P G, Moutsopoulos H M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Thyroid dysfunction in the setting of systemic sclerosis (SSc) has been described previously. We aimed to determine the prevalence of anti-thyroid antibodies (ATA) in a large SSc cohort and to ascertain whether they are associated with distinct clinical phenotypes. METHODS: A total of 138 patients with SSc [46 with diffuse (dSSc) and 92 with limited scleroderma (lSSc)] and 100 healthy controls (HC)...
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