Levy A B, Luzny J
Department of Psychiatry, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.
J Clin Psychiatry. 1989 Jan;50(1):16-7.
Each of 42 hospitalized patients with unipolar major depression received a dexamethasone suppression test (DST) and had blood drawn for serum sodium and potassium tests within 3 days of admission. Unlike the patients in an earlier report by Tollefson et al., these patients showed no correlations between the DST results and the serum sodium levels. Although the DST identified depressive subtypes accurately, the serum sodium levels did not predict the DST results in this study.
42名住院的单相重度抑郁症患者每人都接受了地塞米松抑制试验（DST），并在入院3天内抽血进行血清钠和钾检测。与托勒夫森等人早期报告中的患者不同，这些患者的DST结果与血清钠水平之间没有相关性。尽管DST准确地识别了抑郁亚型，但在本研究中血清钠水平并未预测DST结果。
