The coexistence of thyroid autoimmunity in children and adolescents with various allergic diseases
| Autor: | E. Svenonius, Fredriksson B, Sten-Anders Ivarsson, Peter M. Nilsson, U.-B. Ericsson, Cecilia Olsson, Bengt Lindberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Autoimmune disease
Allergy biology business.industry Thyroid Autoantibody General Medicine medicine.disease Anti-thyroid autoantibodies Thyroiditis Autoimmune thyroiditis medicine.anatomical_structure Thyroid peroxidase Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Immunology biology.protein Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Acta Paediatrica. 87:371-374 |
| ISSN: | 0803-5253 |
| Popis: | The aim of our study was to investigate the coexistence of thyroid autoimmunity and allergic diseases. The prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies was studied in sera from 140 children with different kinds of allergic diseases, 370 11-13-y-old schoolchildren without allergic diseases serving as controls. The prevalence of thyroid peroxidase autoantibodies was found to be higher among the patients than in the control group, 11.4% vs 5.4% (p < 0.05). Ultrasound investigation identified autoimmune thyroiditis in 4.3% (6/140) of the series, which was later confirmed with fine needle aspiration in all six cases, four of which were unknown prior to the study. Our findings may be useful to alert clinicians that thyroid diseases may be superimposed on allergic children. |
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