title: Thyrotoxicosis and stress.
abstract: There have been many attempts to incriminate stress as a precipitant of both physical and psychiatric illness. An inventory of life events made on 100 patients attending the thyroid clinic of a general hospital for the first time showed a slight excess of stressful events in the histories of the thyrotoxic patients. Their timing in relation to the onset of symptoms did not support a causal relationship.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000209:etiology*; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000150:complications*; D013997:Time Factors