PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ayala, Alejandro R.
AU  - Wartofsky, Leonard
TI  - The case for more aggressive screening and treatment of mild thyroid failure
DP  - 2002 Apr 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 313--320
VI  - 69
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/69/4/313.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/69/4/313.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2002 Apr 01; 69
AB  - “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.