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01-12-2012 | Research Letter
Serum vitamin D levels are decreased and associated with thyroid volume in female patients with newly onset Graves’ disease
Authors:
Tetsuyuki Yasuda, Yasuyuki Okamoto, Noboru Hamada, Kazuyuki Miyashita, Mitsuyoshi Takahara, Fumie Sakamoto, Takeshi Miyatsuka, Tetsuhiro Kitamura, Naoto Katakami, Dan Kawamori, Michio Otsuki, Taka-aki Matsuoka, Hideaki Kaneto, Iichiro Shimomura
Published in:
Endocrine
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Issue 3/2012
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Excerpt
It has been shown that vitamin D deficiency is associated with autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes (T1DM), and that vitamin D supplementation prevents the onset and/or development of these autoimmune diseases [
1]. Furthermore, it was reported more recently that patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune thyroid disease had lower vitamin D levels [
2]. However, there are few studies examining vitamin D status in patients with newly onset Graves’ disease. In the present study, we evaluated the vitamin D status in female patients with newly onset GD and the association of serum vitamin D levels with the clinical factors related to GD. …
