Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence of depressive type psychoaffective disorders is significantly increased in patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis.Objectives: The study of thyroid autoimmunity correlated with serum levels of TSH, FT4 and depression degree.Methods: The study comprised 70 patients (64 women and 6 men), aged between 18 and 66 years, divided in 4 groups. All study groups were analyzed according to the degree of depres...