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Published in: Endocrine 2/2019

01-02-2019 | Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: SNAS and thyroid autoimmunity risk

Authors: Erin Wesner, Calvin T. Sung, Sharon E. Jacob

Published in: Endocrine | Issue 2/2019

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Excerpt

We commend Andrioli et al. for highlighting the higher prevalence of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (CAT) in Systemic Nickel Allergy Syndrome (SNAS) patients (26.5%) compared to patients with other autoimmune inflammatory disorders (12.7%) including type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, Sjogren’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus [1], as this calls for re-evaluation of the outdated paradigm of categorizing autoimmune diseases strictly into Th1 and Th2 axes. …
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K. Zaletel, S. Gaberscek, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: from genes to the disease. Curr. Genom. 12(8), 576–588 (2011)CrossRef
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Title
Letter to the Editor: SNAS and thyroid autoimmunity risk
Authors
Erin Wesner
Calvin T. Sung
Sharon E. Jacob
Publication date
01-02-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Endocrine / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 1355-008X
Electronic ISSN: 1559-0100
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-018-1809-8

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