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Thyroid Autoantibody Measurement

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Thyroid Function Testing

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Thyroid dysfunction, a common condition affecting more women than men, develops in the majority secondary to a thyroid-specific autoimmune response. As with other autoimmune conditions, susceptibility to autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) is thought to be influenced by an interaction between genetic predisposition and environmental factors, in addition to endogenous factors such as age and sex [1, 2]. Infiltration of the thyroid gland by immune cells is a characteristic finding in ATD, associated with activation of both humoral and cellular immune responses.

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