Postpartum thyroid dysfunction: clinical assessment and relationship to psychiatric affective morbidity

Abstract

This study has shown a high prevalence of postpartum thyroid dysfunction but there was no difference in the clinical and psychiatric signs and symptoms between cases and controls. In the social, psychological, physical and endocrine setting of the postpartum period, women with postpartum thyroid dysfunction are identifiable by the attending physician only by their abnormal thyroid function tests.