Risk factors for and prevalence of thyroid disorders in a cross-sectional study among healthy female relatives of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 396-401

  Strieder, Thea G A ^a   Prummel, Mark F ^a,b   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   Endert, Eric ^a   Wiersinga, Wilmar M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTROGEN; IODINE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EUTHYROIDISM; FAMILY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 0042827414     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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