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Several professional groups recommend routine screening for thyroid disease in adults. Although screening can identify asymptomatic people with abnormal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels and normal thyroid hormone levels, whether such people benefit from treatment is unclear.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found scant evidence that treatment improves screening-detected thyroid disease and concluded that insufficient evidence existed to recommend for or against routine screening. The task force identified no controlled trials of treatment for subclinical hyperthyroidism and no methodologically adequate randomized trials of treatment efficacy for subclinical hypothyroidism. One comparative study of women with TSH levels between…