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Table 1 Prevalence studies of thyroid antibodies in patients with mood disorders

From: Bipolar disorder and antithyroid antibodies: review and case series

Authors

Antibody

Bipolar disorder

Major depression

Other

Normal controls

Gold et al. (1982)

AbM

Hospitalized for depression or lack of energy 9/100 (9 %)

Nemeroff et al. (1985)

AbM and/or AbTG

0/3 (0 %)

7/28 (25 %)

Any hospitalized with prominent depressive symptoms 9/45 (20 %)

Joffe (1987)

AbM and/or AbTG

5/58 (8.6 %)

Haggerty et al. (1990)

AbM and/or AbTG

4/31 (13 %)

5/65 (8 %)

Non-affective disorders 7/68 (10 %)

Custro et al. (1994)

AbTPO and/or AbTG

5/9 (56 %)

Minor depression 0/66 (0 %)

1/38 (3 %)

Haggerty et al. (1997)

AbM and/or AbTG

Mixed 5/26 (19 %)

Depressed 3/19 (16 %)

Manic 2/51 (3.9 %)

15/218 (6.9 %)

Adjustment disorder 2/80 (2.5 %)

10/144 (6.9 %)

König et al. (1999)

AbTPO or AbM and/or AbTG

Severe, hospitalized 100/144 (70 %)

Kupka et al. (2002)

AbTPO

64/226 (28.3 %)

Any psychiatric hospitalization 324/3190 (10.2 %)

23–34/252 (9.1–13.5 %) range with different assays

Brouwer et al. (2005)

AbTPO

Outpatients 9/113 (8 %)

11/113 (10 %)

Degner et al. (2015)

AbTPO and/or AbTG

4/13 (30.8 %)

12/39 (38.5 %)

Schizophrenia 2/19 (10.5 %)