Congenital hypothyroidism, the first cause of preventable mental retardation: a challenge for preventive medicine

ABSTRACT Congenital hypothyroidism is the most common endocrine disease in newborns and can be clinical or subclinical. It is the leading cause of treatable mental retardation and its prognosis is in the early screening and timely initiation of treatment; this is the reason why in Colombia the imple...