Table 1.

Characteristics of Graves' disease (GD) patients and healthy controls (HC)

	HC	GD diagnosis	GD treatment	GD recurrent
Group size	10	5	4	7
Age (year)	31·5 ± 6·1	47·2 ± 6·5	30·8 ± 8·5	32·9 ± 8·7
Gender
Female	8	4	4	4
Male	2	1	0	3
Treatment
Thiamazole			3	6
Propylthiouracil (PTU)			2	1
Levothyroxine			1	5
β-adrenergic blocking drugs		1	1	1
Ophthalmopathy				1