title: The significant increase in incidence of Graves' disease in eastern Serbia during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia (1992 to 1995).
abstract: The incidence of Graves' disease for the last 25 years in eastern Serbia (Yugoslavia), Timok Region is reported. Registration of all Graves' disease patients was conducted in the Endocrinology-Thyroid Unit of Nuclear Medicine Service, Medical Center Zajecar. Timok Region has a population of 315,000 people in seven counties. From 1971 to 1980 an average of 16 new patients per year were registered; from 1981 to 1990 an average of 33 patients per year were registered; in 1995 the number reached 100, and in 1996 there were 148 newly registered patients. Some of the possible factors influencing this significant annual increase of autoimmune hyperthyroidism are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Medicine, Medical Centre Zajecar, Yugoslavia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Paunkovic
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paunkovic
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pavlovic
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Paunovic
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012042:Registries; D014857:Warfare; D015022:Yugoslavia