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Research Notes on Graves' Ophthalmopathy
Graves' Ophthalmopathy is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder affecting the orbit of the eye, with or without thyroid disorder. The pathology mostly affects persons of 30 to 50 years of age. Females are four times more likely to develop graves' opthalmopathy than males. A simple way of reducing inflammation is smoking cessation, as pro-inflammatory substances are found in cigarettes. ...read more from Wikipedia
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Nov. 24, 2009
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Graves' disease ophthalmopathy, Graves ophthalmopathy, Grave's ophthalmopathy, Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy, Thyroid-related eye disease, Von Basedow ophthalmopathy, Von Basedow's ophthalmopathy, L Graves' thyroid-associated, Dysthyroid orbitopathy, Dysthyroid exophthalmos
- Last update: Nov. 10, 2009
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