The Treatment of Subclinical Hypothyroidism Is Seldom Necessary
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Subclinical hypothyroidism in children: is it always subclinical?
Aim of this commentary is to report current knowledges on the main clinical and metabolic abnormalities which might be observed in children with longstanding and untreated subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) and to comment the most recent views about natural evolution of thyroid function in the cases with either idiopathic or Hashimoto's thyroiditis-related SH. On the basis of these preliminary rem...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0021-972X,1945-7197
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.86.10.7961