title: The case for more aggressive screening and treatment of mild thyroid failure.
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.
authors: Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors: Alejandro R
authors: AR
authors: Ayala
authors: Leonard
authors: L
authors: Wartofsky
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013960:Thyroid Function Tests; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D013974:Thyroxine