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Prevalence of thyroid disease in MS patients and in a representative sample of the general population |
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| MS Population (N = 491) |
General Population (N = 532) |
Significance after age-sex standardization |
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| Graves' |
15 (3.1%) |
2 (0.4%) |
p = 0.002* |
| Hashimoto's |
26 (5.5%) |
12 (2.2%) |
p = 0.097 |
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* by Fisher exact test | |||
Sloka et al. Journal of Autoimmune Diseases 2005 2:9 doi:10.1186/1740-2557-2-9 |
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