RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The case for more aggressive screening and treatment of mild thyroid failure
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 313
OP 320
VO 69
IS 4
A1 Ayala, Alejandro R.
A1 Wartofsky, Leonard
YR 2002
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/69/4/313.abstract
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.