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Hypothyroidism in psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

I. Melatto ,
M.D.L. Pequeno ,
A. Santos ,
H. Gilberto ,
D. Malheiros ,
F.J. Ropero Peláez ,
G. Taniguchi Rodrigues ,
J. Magalhães  and
S. Taniguchi
I. Melatto
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Basic Sciences, Santo André, Brazil
M.D.L. Pequeno
Affiliation:
CAPS II Jardim Lídia, Psychiatry, São Paulo, Brazil
A. Santos
Affiliation:
CAPS II Jardim Lídia, Psychiatry, São Paulo, Brazil
H. Gilberto
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Health Economics, São Paulo, Brazil
D. Malheiros
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Health Economics, São Paulo, Brazil
F.J. Ropero Peláez
Affiliation:
UFABC, Center of Mathematics Computation ad Cognition, Santo André, Brazil
G. Taniguchi Rodrigues
Affiliation:
Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará, Faculty of Medicine, Belém, Brazil
J. Magalhães
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Basic Sciences, Santo André, Brazil
S. Taniguchi
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Basic Sciences, Santo André, Brazil

Abstract

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Introduction

Hypothyroidism psychocognitive key features may include melancholia, memory impairment, depression and dementia which could be misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder.

Objective

To study the incidence of hypothyroidism in psychiatric patients.

Methods

This retrospective study included 232 psychiatric patients with mean age of 43.39 ± 10 years old weight mean of 79.81 ± 19.07 kg, BIM of 29.55 ± 6.83, enrolled in a public mental health service.

Results

Twenty point twenty-one percent (39) patients presented hypothyroidism with thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels above 5 mIU/L and Free T4 levels below 0.7 ng/dl.

Comparing the incidence of hypothyroidism in Brazilian population estimated rate of until 10% [1] with this psychiatric patients population we observed a significant difference with p value of 2.28 E-6. Neuroleptics 92%(36), biperiden 62%(24) and benzodiazepines 38% (15) were the most frequent prescribed drugs for these hypothyroidism patients.

Conclusion

Significant difference in the incidence of hypothyroidism between general Brazilian population and the studied psychiatric patients was observed [2,3].

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Viewing: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. s839 - s840
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017

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