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Let’s look at the thyroid hormone and its relationship to mood and anxiety disorders, this time in children and adolescents. As the authors of this new review in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry point out, very little has been published about thyroid levels in children. In other words, before we start thinking about how to manage thyroid hormone in children with mood and anxiety problems, it would be useful to know what the landscape looks like out there. How many abnormal TSHs can be found if you get a TSH in every child? Is it worth it?
To address that question, Marissa Luft and her colleagues at the University of Cincinnati looked retrospectively at hospital admissions over about 4 years and looked at the TSH scores found at admission. This hospital’s lab was up to a TSH of 3.74 in micro international units per milliliter. There were no significant differences
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