Prevalence and incidence of hypopituitarism in an adult Caucasian population in northwestern Spain

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 735-740

  Regal, Milagros ^a   Páramo, Concepción ^a   Sierra, José M ^a   Garci Mayor, Ricardo V ^a,b  

^a General Hospital of Vigo   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEALTH SURVEY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN;

EID: 0035655629     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01406.x     Document Type: Article

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