Graves' Disease and Toxic Nodular Goiter Are Both Associated with Increased Mortality But Differ with Respect to the Cause of Death: A Danish Population-Based Register Study

Frans Brandt, Marianne Thvilum, Dorthe Almind, Kaare Christensen, Anders Green, László Hegedüs, Thomas Heiberg Brix

Thyroid · 2012 · 84 citations · 27 references

Abstract

Both GD and TNG, treated in a hospital setting, are associated with increased all-cause mortality. The causes of death differ between the two phenotypes, with cardiovascular mortality being significantly higher in GD.

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