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High titre of antiglutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibody is a strong predictor of the development of thyroid autoimmunity in patients with type 1 diabetes and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 May 2011
Jin Ping, Huang Gan, Lin Jian, Yang Lin, Xiang Bin, Zhou Weidong, Zhou Zhiguang
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is frequently associated with autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD), but little is known about the risk of AITD in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA). We evaluated the genetic and immunological factors involved in the development of thyroid autoimmunity in patients with LADA and T1DM. PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENTS: One hundred and ninety T1DM and 135 LADA patients were...
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