ea0032p1014 | Thyroid (non-cancer) | ECE2013
Carle Allan
, Pedersen Inge Bulow
, Knudsen Nils
, Ovesen Lars
, Rasmussen Lone Banke
, Jorgensen Torben
, Perrild Hans
, Laurberg Peter
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...