Antinuclear antibodies and thyroid function in sexually abused girls

✍ Scribed by Michael D. de Bellis; Lillian Burke; Penelope K. Trickett; Frank W. Putnam

• Book ID: 102926875
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 572 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490090218

✦ Synopsis

Sexualb abused girls manifest dysregulation of physiological stress response systems. In this exploratory investigation, 14 sexual& abused and 13 control girls, ages 8-1 5 years, recruited from a prospective, longitudinal study, underwent plasma antinuclear antibody and thyroid function tests. Thyroid finction tests and plasma antinuclear antibody titers did not differ between sexually abused and control girls. Howeve6 a significant& higher incidence of plasma antinuclear antibody titers was seen in abused subjects when compared with the frequency of positive antinuclear antibody titers in a sample of 22 adult healthy female volunteers, ages 20-58 years. These findings suggest that sexually abused girls may show evidence of an alteration in normal immune homeostatic function.