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Significance of Prediagnostic Thyroid Antibodies in Women with Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
Author(s) -
Susan Hutfless,
Peter G. Matos,
Monica V. Talor,
Patrizio Caturegli,
Noel R. Rose
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2011-0228
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid peroxidase , anti thyroid autoantibodies , antibody , thyroiditis , thyroid , thyroglobulin , thyroid disease , autoantibody , immunology , gastroenterology
Antibodies to thyroglobulin (Tg), thyroperoxidase (TPO), and TSH receptor (TSH-R) are prevalent in autoimmune thyroid diseases. We aimed to assess whether females with Graves disease or Hashimoto thyroiditis are more likely than age-matched controls to have thyroid antibodies before clinical diagnosis and to measure the timing of antibody seroconversion.

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