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The case for more aggressive screening and treatment of mild thyroid failure
Alejandro R Ayala1, Leonard Wartofsky
1Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
"Subclinical" (mild) thyroid failure is not benign: it tends to progress to overt thyroid failure and it has adverse clinical effects. We believe it should be screened for more aggressively in the general population, and treated with levothyroxine.