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Keywords: Adult; adults; Age; Aged; air pollution; analogs & derivatives; analysis; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Antibodies; Antibodies - blood; Applied ecology; autoantibodies; Autoantigens; Autoantigens - immunology; Autoimmunity; Benzofurans; Benzofurans - blood; Biological and medical sciences; blood; DDE (pesticide); DDT (pesticide); Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated; Dioxin; Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution; environmental exposure; Environmental Exposure - analysis; Environmental Pollutants; Environmental Pollutants - blood; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; HCH (pesticide); hexachlorobenzene; Humans; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated - blood; Hypothyroidism; immunology; insecticide residues; iodide peroxidase; Iodide Peroxidase - immunology; Iodine; Iodine - urine; Iron-Binding Proteins; Iron-Binding Proteins - immunology; Male; Middle Aged; PCBs; Pesticides; Pesticides - blood; physiology; polychlorinated biphenyls; polychlorinated dibenzodioxins; Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins - analogs & derivatives; Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins - blood; polychlorinated dibenzofurans; Slovakia; thyroglobulin; Thyroglobulin - blood; thyroid gland; Thyroid Gland - diagnostic imaging; Thyroid Gland - physiology; Thyroid volume; thyrotropin; Thyrotropin - blood; Ultrasonography; Ultrasound; urine; volume; Slovakia; Autoimmunity; PCBs; Hypothyroidism; Thyroid volume; Ultrasound; Dioxin; Dioxin derivatives; Pesticides; Polychlorobiphenyl; Long term; Persistent organic pollutant; Exposure time; Organic compounds