Healio (11/9, Monostra) reports, “A cohort of adults with schizophrenia in Israel had a higher rate of hypothyroidism after diagnosis than controls without schizophrenia, although no difference was found before diagnosis between the two groups,” investigators concluded in “a retrospective study of 1,252 adults with schizophrenia who were aged 18 to 64 years at diagnosis, and 3,576 controls selected from the Clalit Health Services database in Israel from 2002 to 2015.” The study authors concluded that “hypothyroidism may have a different cause in patients with schizophrenia, either disease- or treatment-related, compared to hypothyroidism in the general population.” The findings were published in the November issue of the journal Psychiatry Research.
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— “Rate of hypothyroidism higher in adults after schizophrenia diagnosis “Michael Monostra, Healio, November 9, 2020