Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To assess prevalence of antipsychotic-induced hyperpolactinemia (AIH) in psychiatric in-patients and to describe its clinical characteristics and association of AIH with sexual function.Methods: A cross-sectional study in 143 consecutive psychiatric in-patients (F/M=65/78), mostly with schizophrenia (93%), currently taking antipsychotics. The patients were screened for serum prolactin, sex hormones, gonadotropin levels and macroprolactin. For...