History
The American internist Edward C. Heyde originally described the syndrome in a 1958 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, reporting on ten patients with the association. Edward Heyde, MD Graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1938, served three years in the Army Medical Corps in WWII and joined hte Vancouver Clinic in 1948, practicing medicine there for 31 years. He died on October 13, 2004 A letter appearing shortly after confirmed an odds ratio of almost 3.0 between the two diseases.
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