Endocrine Abstracts

Prevention of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) might become feasible in the future.Preventive intervention requires accurate prediction. AITD frequently runs in families, and twin studies have shown that genes contribute to a large extent to the risk of Graves' hyperthyroidism (GH) and Hashimoto's hypothyroidism (HH). However, CTLA-4 and HLA genes confer only a small risk, and the nature of the polygenetic background remains largely unknown. The impact of environmental factor...

Wilmar M Wiersinga, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract Wilmar M Wiersinga was born in Leiden in 1942. After finishing his medical studies in 1969 he obtained his Board Certification of Internal Medicine in 1976. He subspecialised in endocrinology, and defended his PhD thesis in 1979 at the University of Amsterdam on the topic “Th...