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ea0022p317 | Diabetes | ECE2010

Thyroid diseases in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Dirikoc Ahmet , Kuru Meryem , Sen Didem Ozdemir , Aydin Cevdet , Ersoy Reyhan , Cakir Bekir

Introduction: Coexistence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and autoimmune thyroid diseases was shown in previous studies. Thyroid dysfunctions and thyroid autoantibody positiveness were reported in 23–25 and 27–44% of patients with type 1 DM, respectively. In recent years, thyroid ultrasonography (US) is widely used to diagnose autoimmune thyroid diseases with regard to its ability to define thyroid morphology and echogenity. In this study, we aimed to evaluate thyro...