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Relation between Type 2 diabetes mellitus and thyroid disease

Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine, Third Faculty of Medicine |
2018

Abstract

We have read with interest the article by Sotak S et al entitled "Type 2 diabetes mellitus and thyroid disease: a two-sided analy- sis" (1) published recently in your journal. It has presented the data from a valuable study, trying to fi nd an answer to an important question.

The main conclusions of the study were that patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) showed to have higher prevalence of auto- immune thyroid disease and primary hypothyroidism; higher prev- alence of T2DM in patients with thyroid diseases was not found. A comprehensive list of studies related to the topic and also profound discussion about collected and analyzed amount of data, leading to interesting debate has been provided in the article.