Rwegellara G G, Mambwe C C
Med J Zambia. 1977 Jun-Jul;11(3):78-83.
All (478) indigenous Zambian patients who were in hospital on a particular day in January 1976 were examined by the authors for goitre. 34.4 per cent of all adult female patients and 23.2 per cent of all adult male patients had goitre. However, 57.6 per cent of all female patients with effective illness and 77.0 per cent of all male patients with paranoid psychosis were found to have goitre. The association between affective illness and paranoid psychosis on the one hand and goitre on the other was found to be statistically significnat at the 0.1 per cent level. It is suggested that further work should be done to find out what proportion of patients with depression or pananoia have sub-clinical or borderline hypothyroidism.
1976年1月的某一天，作者对当时住院的所有（478名）赞比亚本土患者进行了甲状腺肿检查。所有成年女性患者中有34.4%患有甲状腺肿，所有成年男性患者中有23.2%患有甲状腺肿。然而，在所有患有情感性疾病的女性患者中有57.6%以及所有患有偏执型精神病的男性患者中有77.0%被发现患有甲状腺肿。结果发现，一方面情感性疾病和偏执型精神病与另一方面甲状腺肿之间的关联在0.1%的水平上具有统计学意义。建议应进一步开展工作，以查明抑郁症或偏执症患者中有多大比例患有亚临床或临界甲状腺功能减退症。
