Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Hypothyroid patients report a diversity of symptoms at disease presentation. We studied how useful symptoms are to predict hypothyroidism, and if this may vary between subgroups of patients.Methods: Patients newly diagnosed with overt autoimmune hypothyroidism (n=140) were prospectively identified in a population by linkage to diagnostic laboratory databases, and we concomitantly enrolled individually sex and age-region matched contr...

Introduction: Autoimmune thyroid disease is associated with other autoimmune diseases. However, most studies are register-based cohort studies or investigate selected patient populations. In a large national cross-sectional population-based study, we investigated positivity of thyroid peroxidase- or thyroglobulin-antibodies (TPOAbs or TgAbs) in association with non-thyroidal autoimmune disease.Methods: As part of The Danish Investigation of Iodine Intake...