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Society for Endocrinology BES 2009

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Early stages of thyroid autoimmunity

Wiersinga Wilmar

Early stages of thyroid autoimmunity can be identified by thyroid hypoechogenecity and/or thyroid antibodies in serum. To get better insight in these early stages, we assembled a large group of women at risk for AITD (all had one or more 1st or 2nd degree relatives with AITD), who were in self-proclaimed good health and followed for 5 yr (the Amsterdam AITD cohort).At study entrance, euthyroid women had reduced CD25 expression on CD4+T-cells and lower se...

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Society for Endocrinology European Medal Lecture

Wiersinga W

W Wiersinga, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands AbstractWilmar M Wiersinga obtained his MD in Amsterdam in 1969 and his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1976. He obtained his PhD cum laude in 1979 at the University of Amsterdam on the thesis ‘The peripheral conversion of T4 into T3 and reverse T3’. Thereafter he spent two years as a research fellow at the UCLA with professors David...