Table 1.

Characteristics of Healthy Controls and Individuals with Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

	Healthy controls	AITD
Number of patients	9	20
Age, mean (range)	34 (13–46)	32 (10–56)
Female, n (%)	7 (78)	16 (80)
AITD: HT/GD	N/A	13/7
Mean duration of AITD in years (range)	N/A	7 (0–23)
No. with multiple autoimmune disease (% with ≥3 autoimmune diseases, % with type 1 diabetes)	N/A	7 (29, 57)

AITD, autoimmune thyroid disease; HT, Hashimoto's thyroiditis; GD, Graves' disease; N/A, not applicable.