Some interesting quotes on research results from a study in the journal simply called "Thyroid". This is floating around the web, I looked for the origional, was unable to find it on the web
Some quotes and re-quotes from About Thyroid :
["New research published in the journal Thyroid has shown that Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease and the most common cause of hypothyroidism -- an underactive thyroid -- in the U.S., has an effect on quality of life.