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Abstract
The aim of this study to detect the frequency of thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid dysfunction in a cohort of type 1 diabetics randomely selected from the Diabetic Endocrine and Metabolic Pediatric Unit (DEMPU), Children’s Hospital, Cairo University and to study possible epidemiologic risk factors, including age, sex, and duration of diabetes and to highlight the value of thyroid autoantibodies in screening of thyroid dysfunction in type 1 diabetic patients.
One hundred Type 1 diabetic children, with different ages and variable diabetes duration, and one hundred age and sex-matched normal children and adolescents were screened for thyroid autoimmunity ( by detection of thyroid antibodies) and thyroid dysfunction