Preliminary study of thyrotrophin releasing hormone stimulation test in chronic low back pain patients
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 27 (1) , 51-55
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(86)90221-6
Abstract
Chronic pain has been considered as a variant of depression or as a masked depression. In an attempt to unravel the complex relationship between chronic pain and depression, we administered the TRH stimulation test to a uniform group of chronic pain patients classical into those with and without major depression using DSM-III criteria. Eighteen percent showed blunting of TSH response to TRH. There was no significant differences between the two groups.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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