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Introduction Hashimoto's thyroiditis Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is one of the most common autoimmune endocrine diseases, characterized by an autoimmune-mediated destruction of the thyroid gland. Initially considered a rarity, HT has now
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Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal
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Introduction Thyroid hormones (THs) play fundamental roles in cardiovascular homeostasis ( 1 ). Given that cardiovascular diseases are among the most prevalent illnesses worldwide, causing substantial mortality, morbidity and hospitalization
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lymph nodes. Some patients are diagnosed in the physical examination without obvious clinical symptoms ( 4 ). The first case of sarcoidosis and thyroid disease was reported in 1938 ( 5 ). Recently, studies about the relationship between sarcoidosis and
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Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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Department of Clinical Nutrition, Landspitali-National University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Goldman School of Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Frölunda Specialist Hospital, Västra Frölunda, Sweden
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Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Wallenberg Centre of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Introduction Register-based data on treatments and diagnoses of thyroid disease can be used as proxies for thyroid disease frequency in a population. This has, for example, been successfully utilized in Denmark ( 1 ). In many European
Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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antibodies ( 8 ). A recent meta-analysis reported an odds ratio (OR) of 3.3 (95% CI 2.3–4.6) for autoimmune thyroid disease in women with PCOS ( 9 ). The risk of overt hypothyroidism in PCOS is less described than the risk of autoimmune thyroiditis. In a
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Department of Internal Medicine, HagaHospital, The Hague, The Netherlands
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thyroid disease and variations in the definitions of subclinical thyroid disease among different studies. In an attempt to tackle these limitations, recent large, individual participant data meta-analyses were performed and associations were found between
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Introduction Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is a common organ-specific autoimmune disorder which includes two main clinical diseases: Graves’ disease (GD) and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT). Both GD and HT share the immunologic manifestation
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Introduction In autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), one of the autoimmune diseases, cytokine-mediated immunity play a key role during the pathogenesis and development ( 1 ). AITDs are common endocrine autoimmune diseases with prevalence of
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hyperthyroidism, the most common of which is Graves’ disease (GD); other types include toxic multinodular goiter (TMNG), toxic thyroid adenoma (TA) and Hashimoto’s hyperthyroidism. According to the findings of the Thyroid Disease, Iodine Nutrition and Disease
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association between PCOS and autoimmune diseases ( 21 , 22 ) and especially autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD), the most common form of autoimmune disorder, with an estimated prevalence of 5% ( 23 , 24 , 25 ). AITD results from a dysregulation of the