Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:1491-1493
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
Relationship of serum TSH concentration and antithyroid antibodies to diagnosis and DST response in psychiatric inpatients
JJ Haggerty Jr, JS Simon, DL Evans and CB Nemeroff
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 27514.
Basal serum TSH concentration, antithyroid antibody titers, and DST
response were evaluated in 124 psychiatric patients with affective
symptoms. DST nonsuppressors were more likely than DST suppressors to have
thyroid abnormalities.