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Total and age‐specific incidence of Graves' thyrotoxicosis, toxic nodular goitre and solitary toxic adenoma in Malmö 1970–74
Author(s) -
BERGLUND J.,
CHRISTENSEN S. BORUP,
HALLENGREN B.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2796.1990.tb00132.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , graves' disease , adenoma , population , thyroid adenoma , pediatrics , disease , goiter , thyroid , physics , environmental health , optics
. During a 5‐year period, 333 new cases of thyrotoxicosis were diagnosed in a well‐defined urban population of 258 000 inhabitants in southern Sweden without a history of endemic goitre. This corresponds to a mean annual incidence of thyrotoxicosis of 25.8/1. The incidence of Graves' disease was 17.7, the incidence of toxic nodular goitre was 5.4 and that of solitary toxic adenoma was 2.7/1/year. The peak age‐specific incidence of Graves' disease was 32.6/1/year (age group 60–69 years), and that of toxic nodular goitre and solitary toxic adenoma was 31.5/1/year (age group over 80 years).