Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association
Reference: Journal Thyronet / / 2003 / / № 2
Abstract: Kuchinskaya EA, et al. (Minsk, Belarus) examined the level of AT-TG and TPO (thyroid peroxidase) antibodies in 157 children and adolescents with AIT and 126 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM-1). It was found that in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis residing in Gomel, who were exposed to radiation during the Chernobyl accident, the level of AT-TG and TPO antibodies were significantly higher (p <0,05), compared to patients who live in Minsk, who was not radioactively contaminated. Similarly, the prevalence of carriage of AT-TPO was higher among patients with type-1 diabetes mellitus from Gomel, compared with patients from Minsk (40% vs 27%; p <0,05).