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Autoimmune pathology appears by almost all endocrine glands and affects them in a variable incidence. Type 1 diabetes associated with certain endocrine disorders, pictures the autoimmune polyglandular syndromes. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of the combination of different kinds of autoimmune disorders in adult patients with deterioration of glycemic balance and thyroid diseases. The studied group was of 650 cases with an age between 17-79 years. The group of adults was subdivided according to the type of changes in the glycemic balance in 4 subgroups: DM group with type 1 represented by 60 cases (9.23%), DM group with type 2 represented by 290 cases (44.61%), a group with IGT represented by 183 cases (28.15%) and a IFG group of 117 cases (18%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]