[High prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among psychiatric inpatients].

Background: Thyroid dysfunction is frecuent in psychiatric outpatients and in the general Chilean population but there is no information about the prevalence of thyroid diseases in Chilean psychiatric inpatients.

Aim: To retrospectively assess the frequency of thyroidal diseases in psychiatric inpatients.

Material And Methods: Clinical charts and thyroid assessment of 241 psychiatric inpatients (147 women, mean age 33+/-16 years) attended in a University Psychiatric Clinic, were reviewed.