[Hypophyseal-thyroid system in chronic alcoholism]

The levels of the thyroid hormones in the peripheral blood of patients with Stage I and II chronic alcoholism increased moderately at the expense of ejection activation in the blood but not hyperproduction of the thyroid and correlated with a decrease in the secretion of corticosteroids and an increase in the ACTH level. Disproportion of the T3 and T4 levels was in direct relation to a degree of alcoholic liver affection. In a long-term period following antialcoholic treatment hormonal function of the hypophyseothyroid system got back to normal.