Hepatitis C virus antibodies and Graves' disease
- 14 January 1995
- Vol. 310 (6972) , 128-129
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6972.128d
Abstract
EDITOR,—J C Duclos-Vallee and colleagues have reported a high prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus in patients affected by Hashimoto's thyroiditis,1 and Tran et al have described two cases of the same association.2 In response to these reports we studied the prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies and viraemia in the serum of 39 patients (3 male) with a mean age of 46 years who had various autoimmune thyroid diseases: 18 (3 male) had Graves' …Keywords
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