High prevalence of serum antibodies to hepatitis C virus in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Abstract
We studied stored serum samples from 200 patients (190 women) with thyroid disease (simple goitre (n=50), Graves' disease (n=50), and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (n=50) randomly selected from all patients seen at five centres between 1987 and 1992.