Thyrotrophin Response to Thyreostimulin in Affectively Ill Women Relationship to Suicidal Behaviour
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (4) , 401-405
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.143.4.401
Abstract
Summary: Past history of suicidal behaviour was investigated in 51 depressed women (27 unipolar and 24 bipolar) in whom the TSH response to TRH was studied. Patients with a history of violent suicidal attempts were shown to have a reduced TSH response to TRH, compared to depressed patients with a history of non-violent suicidal attempts and depressed patients with no history of suicidal behaviour. A five-year follow-up study on these patients revealed that four patients who died from suicide had an absence of TSH response to TRH.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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