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=== Age === Hashimoto's thyroiditis can occur at any age, including children,<ref name="Monaco" /> but more commonly appears in [[middle age]], particularly for men.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 July 2012 |title=Hashimoto's disease fact sheet |url=http://www.womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/fact-sheet/hashimoto-disease.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202154021/http://www.womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/fact-sheet/hashimoto-disease.html |archive-date=2 December 2014 |access-date=23 November 2014 |publisher=Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, womenshealth.gov (or girlshealth.gov)}}</ref> [[Incidence (epidemiology)|Incidence]] peaks in the fifth decade of life, but patients are usually diagnosed between age 30β50.<ref name="Niddk2021" /><ref name=":3a" /> The highest prevalence from one study was found in the elderly members of the community.<ref name="Vanderpump-2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Vanderpump MP | title = The epidemiology of thyroid disease | journal = British Medical Bulletin | volume = 99 | issue = 1 | pages = 39β51 | date = 2011-09-01 | pmid = 21893493 | doi = 10.1093/bmb/ldr030 }}</ref> It has been shown that the prevalence of positive tests for thyroid antibodies increases with age, "with a frequency as high as 33 percent in women 70 years old or older."<ref name="Dayan96" />
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