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Can graves disease be hereditary?
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Yes: Family history of graves' disease is one known risk factor for graves'. Age, gender, presence of other autoimmune disease, stress, smoking are other known risk factors.
Answered 5/1/2014
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Heredity and Graves: Graves' disease ruins in some families but can also present spontaneously. In the south, I have noticed is in many African American families.
Answered 5/12/2016
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