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Hepatitis C virus antibodies and Graves' disease
BMJ 1995; 310 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6972.128d (Published 14 January 1995) Cite this as: BMJ 1995;310:128
- Oriana Leri,
- Maria Teresa Sinopoli,
- Maria Anna Di Prima,
- Anna Di Prima
- Researcher Doctor Researcher Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy
- Associate professor Department of Internal Medicine, University “La Sapienza”
EDITOR,—J C Duclos-Vallee and colleagues have reported a high prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus in patients affected by Hashimoto's thyroiditis,1 and Tran et al have described two cases of the same association.2 In response to these reports we studied the prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies and viraemia in the serum of 39 patients (3 male) with a mean age of 46 years who had various autoimmune thyroid diseases: 18 (3 male) had Graves' …
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