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Preliminary study of thyrotrophin releasing hormone stimulation test in chronic low back pain patients
Randal D France1, K Ranga, R Krishnan
1Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 U.S.A.
Pain
|October 1, 1986
Abstract:
Chronic pain has been considered as a variant of depression or as a masked depression. In an attempt to unravel the complex relationship between chronic pain and depression, we administered the TRH stimulation test to a uniform group of chronic pain patients classified into those with and without major depression using DSM-III criteria. Eighteen percent showed blunting of TSH response to TRH. There was no significant difference between the two groups.