Increased annual frequency of Hashimoto's thyroiditis between years 1988 and 2007 at a cytological unit of Sicily
| Autor: | Claudio Scisca, Calbo L, Massimo Rizzo, Salvatore Benvenga, Alessandro Sindoni, Raffaele Talamo Rossi, Francesco Trimarchi, Giuseppe Altavilla, Orsola Bonaffini, Antonio Rosano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Thyroid nodules
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Biopsy Fine-Needle Hashimoto Disease Gastroenterology Fine needle aspiration cytology Thyroiditis Endocrinology Sex Factors Sex factors Internal medicine Biopsy medicine Endocrine system Humans Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis Thyroid Nodule Thyroiditis Subacute Sicily Aged Female to male medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Thyroid Age Factors General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Thyroid Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Female business |
| Zdroj: | Annales d'endocrinologie. 71(6) |
| ISSN: | 2213-3941 |
| Popis: | Like other auto-immune diseases, Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) results from the interaction of genetic with environmental factors. Only few studies have evaluated the year-to-year change in frequency of HT over a wide period of time. The endocrine division of our Hospital has reported a great increase in the annual frequency of HT between 1975 and 2005, and a progressive decrease in both age at presentation and female to male (F/M) ratio starting in the mid-1990s. Between years 1988 and 2007, we have collected 8397 adequate examinations by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) on 8397 persons referred for the evaluation of a solitary or dominant thyroid nodule (total FNAC and persons=8520) with a 14-fold increase in 2007 over 1988. In this 20-year period, cases of HT, De Quervain's thyroiditis (DQT) and Riedel's thyroiditis (RT) were 490, 36 and two, respectively. HT cases were one in 1988 but 90 in 2007, with a significant upward temporal trend (r=0.919, P |
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