Relationship between Thyroid Hormone Levels and Crime Type: A Controlled Study in Prisoners

Table 6

Wilcoxon rank sum test results for pulse rate, TSH, T3, and T4, and T3/T4 ratio.

Groups	Z (-value)
	Pulse rate	TSH	T3	T4	T3/T4
Group A vs. Group cont.	−10.43 (<0.001)	−9.50 (<0.001)	−10.33 (<0.001)	−6.31 (<0.001)	−3.70 (<0.001)
Group B vs. Group cont.	−5.31 (<0.001)	−8.56 (<0.001)	−0.22 (0.83)	−1.00 (0.32)	−0.54 (0.59)
Group A vs. Group B	−7.73 (<0.001)	−1.18 (0.24)	−11.96 (<0.001)	−6.7 (<0.001)
Group D vs. Group cont.	−3.77 (<0.001)	−3.74 (<0.001)	−3.74 (<0.001)	−3.74 (<0.001)	−3.74 (<0.001)
Group C vs. Group B	−0.62 (0.53)	−0.62 (0.54)	0.62 (0.54)	0.62 (0.54)
Group C vs. Group cont.	−10.24 (<0.001)	−9.23 (<0.001)	−10.13 (<0.001)	−5.95 (<0.001)

Group A: prisoners convicted of crimes related to aggression. Group B: prisoners convicted of other crimes. Group C: remaining offenders after excluding toxic goitre cases from Group A. Group D: convicts with toxic goitre.