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An analysis of the prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies: thyroid peroxidase antibodies (ATA) and thyroglobulin antibodies (ATG) in children with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus type 1 during 2000–2004 in the Upper Silesia region, Poland

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies and clinical significance of thyroid autoimmunity in children with the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type 1. The study group comprised 222 children all with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus type 1 (122 boys) with a mean age 9.92 ± 4.5 years, who were admitted to a regional diabetes division in 2000–2004. Assessment of ATA and ATG were performed and two emerging groups—ATA/ATG (+) and ATA/ATG (−) were compared, including anthropometric data, HbA1C, plasma lipids, TSH, fT4. Positive antibodies titre was found in 27 (12.16%) of the children. Apart from older age in the antibody positive group (11.67 vs. 9.67 years, p < 0.05), there were no significant differences among these groups regarding other clinical and laboratory characteristics. Concluding, the presence of thyroid autoantibodies in 12.16% of subjects with newly diagnosed diabetes confirms the necessity of screening of all children, especially adolescents from the time of diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type 1 onwards. No association between existence of autoantibodies and the clinical status of a child at the presentation of diabetes was demonstrated by this study.

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The project was partially supported by Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN), grant no. 3T11F 010 29.

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  1. Central Clinical Hospital of Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

    L. Machnica

  2. Yeovil District Hospital, Yeovil, Somerset, UK

    A. Osior

  3. Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Medical University of Silesia, Medykow 16, 40-752, Katowice, Poland

    P. Jarosz-Chobot & G. Deja

  4. Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    J. Polanska

  5. Child and Mother Health Center of Upper Silesia, Katowice, Poland

    E. Otto-Buczkowska

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Machnica, L., Osior, A., Jarosz-Chobot, P. et al. An analysis of the prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies: thyroid peroxidase antibodies (ATA) and thyroglobulin antibodies (ATG) in children with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus type 1 during 2000–2004 in the Upper Silesia region, Poland. Acta Diabetol 45, 37–40 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-007-0017-4

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