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Creatinine in Mentally Defective Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

L. S. Penrose
Affiliation:
From the Research Department, Royal Eastern Counties' Institution, Colchester
Caecilia E. M. Pugh
Affiliation:
From the Research Department, Royal Eastern Counties' Institution, Colchester

Extract

The influence of the endocrines on the excretion of creatine and on the urinary creatinine level has become increasingly recognized of recent years. It has, of course, long been known that hyperthyroidism is accompanied by creatine excretion. A recent investigation by Sohval, King and Reiner (1938) found that the creatine tolerance test was positive in 90% of patients with active Graves' disease, but only in 10-18% of controls. Shelton and Tager (1937) showed that four out of five slightly hypothyroid children had an increased creatine tolerance.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1939 

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