Affected populations: Acromegaly is estimated to affect approximately 50 to 70 people out of every million. However, the true figure may be higher, as the symptoms develop slowly and thus may go ...

Acromegaly is due to hypersecretion of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). The aim of treatment is to limit this excess secretion and to reduce morbidity and mortality ...

Endocrinology specialist Dr Preethi Dissanayake discusses this uncommon presentation, in the latest in our series on conditions that GPs may only encounter once in their career Acromegaly is a rare ...

Patients with acromegaly require fortnightly or monthly ... All injectors in the test group (12 of whom were the patients and 3 were other people) were successfully trained to inject without ...