A population-based study of chronic autoimmune hypothyroidism in Danish twins

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 536-539

  Brix, Thomas Heiberg ^a,b   Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm ^b   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROIDITIS; TWINS;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENMARK; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID GLAND; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0034453053     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.85.2.536     Document Type: Article

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