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By I. Ross McDougall. 332 pp., illustrated. London, Chapman and Hall, 1992. £55. ISBN 0-412-35130-7.

The thyroid gland has been in the news in the past few years, with both former President George Bush and Barbara Bush given a diagnosis of Graves' disease. Although conjugal thyrotoxicosis (perhaps now dignified with the eponym "Bush disease") has no clear cause -- though shared stress in genetically predisposed persons is as likely a candidate as any -- and is quite uncommon, it does behoove the internist to be aware of the increased risk of autoimmune disease, especially that involving the thyroid, in the offspring of patients with Graves' disease.

In the general population, thyroid-gland dysfunction is relatively common . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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