High prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies in a prospective series of patients with chronic hepatitis C before interferon therapy
Albert Tran, Jean François Quaranta, Sylvia Benzaken, Valerie Thiers, Hoang Trong Chau, Patrick Hastier, Daniel Regnier, Gilles Dreyfus, Christian Pradier, Jean‐Louis Sadoul, Xavier Hebutern, Patrick Rampa – 1 August 1993 – After describing two cases of Hashimoto's thyroiditis associated with chronic hepatitis C, we set up a prospective study to assessthe prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies (thyroglobulin and thyroid microsomal autoantibodies) in 72 chronic hepatitis C patients (43 men and 29 women; mean age = 51 ± 2.1 yr) before interferon therapy admitted between January and December 199