Association between anti-thyroid antibodies and negative symptoms in early psychosis.

Juan D BarberoAida PalacínPilar SerraMontse SoléLaura OrtegaÁngel CabezasItziar MontalvoMaria José AlgoraLourdes MartorellElisabet VilellaVanessa Sánchez-GistauJavier Labad

Published in: Early intervention in psychiatry (2019)

Our study suggests that anti-thyroid antibodies are associated with a more severe phenotype with increased negative symptoms and poorer functioning in early psychotic patients. Since causality cannot be inferred with cross-sectional data, future longitudinal studies are needed to overcome this limitation.

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