Prevalence of acromegaly in patients with symptoms of sleep apnea.

Prevalence of acromegaly in patients with symptoms of sleep apnea.

Acromegaly is a rare disease with nonspecific symptoms with acral enlargement being almost universally present at diagnosis. The estimated prevalence is 40-125 cases/million but targeted universal screening studies have found a higher prevalence (about 10 fold). The aim of the ACROSAHS study was to...

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Main Authors: Gemma Sesmilo, Eugenia Resmini, Marcel Sambo, Concepción Blanco, Fernando Calvo, Fernando Pazos, Pablo Fernández-Catalina, Purificación Martínez de Icaya, Concepción Páramo, Carmen Fajardo, Mónica Marazuela, Cristina Álvarez-Escolá, Juan Jose Díez, Verónica Perea, ACROSAHS study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183539&type=printable

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