Bobbi
August 3, 2012 at 3:33 pm
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Just lost my post. aarrggh.
In an endocrine journal from the UK, the study –or abstract — title being something like Use of antithyroid hormone receptor (TRAb) in Graves, the researchers specifically stated: “TRAB did not seem to predict chance of cure, or development of GO.” Nothing equivocal about that one. But that is based on the results of a single study. And I don’t know how good it was.
Also, the study you initially cited stated that TRAb declined in the blood regardless of treatment method.
So, I am still left scratching my head. I suspect that it is still a working hypothesis (unless that’s a redundant phrase), subject to change.