The association of autoimmune thyroiditis with systemic lupus erythematosus

Abstract EN

We determined the degree of ovelap between autoimmune thyroiditis disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE).

Fourty one SLE patients with twenty age-and sex-matched controls were included in this study.

Twenty-one (51 %) of the SLE patients had anti thyroglobulin (anti-TG) antibodies.

Ten SLE patients had elevated TSH levels, usually in association with the presence of anti-TG.

These results suggest that SLE is associated with autoimmune thyroiditis and that many patients with SLE have minor hypothyroidism.