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- Hashimoto’s disease [online], Mayo Clinic US. More information here.
- Chronic thyroiditis (Hashimoto’s disease) [online], Medline Plus, National Library of Medicine & the US National Institutes of Health US. More information here.
- Important information for thyroid patients [online], Thyroid Federation International. More information here.
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- Lazarus, J. H. (1998) [online], ‘Prediction of postpartum thyroiditis’, in European Journal of Endocrinology, vol. 139, pp. 12–13. More information here.
- National Health Survey (1995), Australian Bureau of Statistics. More information here.
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