Review

The case for more aggressive screening and treatment of mild thyroid failure

Alejandro R. Ayala, MD and Leonard Wartofsky, MD
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2002, 69 (4) 313-320;

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.

Footnotes

  • ↵* The author has indicated receiving grant or research support from Knoll Pharma and Genzyme Corporation, and has acted as a consultant for Knoll Pharma.

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