Psychiatric Illness in a Large Family with Familial Hyperparathyroidism
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 117 (541), 693-698
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.117.541.693
Abstract
In 1964 Cutler et al. (1) reported on a family in which 11 members apparently had primary hyperparathyroidism. Seven cases were diagnosed at surgery; four other members had elevated serum calcium and other evidence of the disease. It was noted as an incidental finding that two of the affected members also suffered from severe psychiatric illness. The present study is a six-year follow-up investigation of the family from a psychiatric viewpoint, using non-hyperparathyroidism family members as controls to explore the possible relation of hyperparathyroidism to psychiatric illness.Keywords
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