Postpartum mood disorders and thyroid autoimmunity

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Le Donne, Maria ^a   Mento, Carmela ^a   Settineri, Salvatore ^a   Antonelli, Alessandro ^b   Benvenga, Salvatore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Depression; Mood disorders; Postpartum; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MOOD DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PUERPERIUM; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROIDITIS;

EID: 85020048934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00091     Document Type: Article

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