Use of administrative health databases to estimate incidence and prevalence of acromegaly in Piedmont Region, Italy
- 1 August 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
- Vol. 42 (4), 397-402
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-018-0928-7
Abstract
Recent studies from national registries have described changing patterns in epidemiology of acromegaly. Our retrospective study used administrative databases to estimate prevalence and incidence of acromegaly in the Piedmont Region, Italy.Keywords
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