Citation

Coryell W, Schlesser MA. Am. J. Psychiatry 1981; 138(8): 1120-1121.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7258395

Abstract

The authors studied 243 inpatients with unipolar depression who had received DSTs. Of 205 patients with primary depression, the 4 who later committed suicide were among 96 with abnormal DST results; 1 patients with secondary depression committed suicide despite a normal DST result. The authors suggest that hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal dysfunction is associated with a type of primary depressive illness that is more likely to involve suicide than are other types.

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