title: [A comparative study of the serum levels of thyrotropin in depressed patients and normal subjects].
abstract: Serum TSH levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in 85 affective disorders and 41 healthy control persons. The results showed that the serum TSH levels of the patient group were significantly lower than the normal control's. TSH levels among different clinical episodes, however, have no significant difference. Furthermore, There were not a marked difference of TSH levels in age, sex and used antipsychotics, antidepressants, lithium or not. The results suggested that further investigations were needed to understand thyroid function state.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Institute, Hunan Medical University, Changsha.
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D013972:Thyrotropin