"Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study".

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vitamin D is a hormone that is mainly produced in the skin upon ultraviolet B radiation exposure and has important influence on various organs. In recent years, data have been collected that vitamin D deficiency plays an important role in the development of various nonskeletal diseases, including autoimmune diseases. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's thyroiditis) is one of the most common organ-specific autoimmune endocrine diseases. It is characterized by increased level of antithyroid peroxidase and/or antithyroglobulin antibodies in blood, which often leads to thyroid dysfunction and structural changes of the gland. There is an opinion that vitamin D deficiency may be considered as an important risk factor for development of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, b

SUBMITTER: Turashvili N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8387174 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature