ESPE Abstracts

Background and Hypothesis: Autoimmune thyroid disorders (AITD), including Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (HT) and Grave’s disease (GD), are known to cluster with other autoimmune disorders (AID). There seem to exist both a pathophysiological basis of immunomodulator genes and epidemiological indications of a higher prevalence of AID including Celiac disease (CeD) in patients with AITD, compared to that in the healthy pediatric population. CeD is asymptomatic in a large prop...