Endocrine Abstracts

In order to investigate the relationship between Graves’ disease, its associated ophthalmopathy and smoking, we followed retrospectively a group of 270 patients with Graves’ disease (233 females and 37 males). Smoking incidence within this group was compared to that found in a control, thyroid disease-free group of 120 patients. The incidence of smokers was significantly higher in the group with Graves’ disease (145 out of 270, 54%) when compared to the control ...