[KimberlyOnline Facilitator April 17, 2013 at 12:34 pm Post count: 4291]

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Hello – You have to have a subscription to get the full article, but uptodate is a good resource that notes 1/5000 children have Graves’ disease. A presenter at a past conference put that number at 1/10000. So the real stats are hard to get a handle on!

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http://www.uptodate.com/contents/treatment-and-prognosis-of-graves-disease-in-children-and-adolescents

Hope this helps!