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Environmental factors affecting autoimmune thyroid disease

M Safran¹, T L Paul, E Roti

¹Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester.

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

|June 1, 1987

Abstract:

A number of environmental factors affect the incidence and progression of autoimmune thyroid disease. Exposure to excess iodine, certain drugs, infectious agents and pollutants, and stress have all been implicated.

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