ea0029p1644 | Thyroid (non-cancer) | ICEECE2012
Effraimidis G.
, Badenhoop K.
, Tijssen J.
, Wiersinga W.
Context: Vitamin D deficiency has been identified as a risk factor for a number of autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.Objective: We hypothesized that low levels of vitamin D are related to the early stages of autoimmune thyroid disease.Design: Two case-control studies were performed. Study A: cases were subjects from the Amsterdam AITD cohort (euthyroid women who had 1st or 2nd degree relatives wit...