Epidemiological Studies on Thyroid Disease (Rept. 3)

Epidemiological Studies of Coronary Disease.

In a previous paper (Thomas, Cochrane, and Higgins, 1958) we considered some of the problems and difficulties that arise in measuring the prevalence of coronary disease in the general community. We illustrated these with two surveys of men aged 55 to 64 years, the first consisting of miners and ex-miners from the Rhondda Fach, a mining valley in South Wales, and the second of men who had never ...

Genetic epidemiological studies of coronary heart disease.

The recent publication of the human genome sequence is widely thought to offer the opportunity for a radical change in our understanding of a variety of common human diseases. One particular hope is that the new information available from the genome sequencing effort will facilitate the conduct of population genetic studies, which will discover the genetic variants responsible for 'complex' or ...

Vitiligo epidemiological profile and the association with thyroid disease.

BACKGROUND Vitiligo is considered the most frequent acquired hypomelanosis. Although its pathogenesis is uncertain, it is believed that autoimmune etiology is the most plausible. This theory is based on the coexistence of vitiligo with autoimmune diseases. OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiological profile of vitiligo patients and to estimate the prevalence of the association of vitiligo with...

Epidemiological characteristics of children with autoimmune thyroid disease.

OBJECTIVE Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (AT) is the most common cause of thyroid disease in children. The aim of the study was to define the epidemiological clinical and laboratory characteristics of children and adolescents with AT. DESIGN Various parameters including thyroid ultrasonography of 228 children and adolescents aged 10.2 ± 2.5 yrs (mean ± SD) with AT, who attended our Pediatric ...

Studies on the Cytotoxic Factor in Thyroid Disease.