Group 4: Replacement therapy for adrenal insufficiency
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Adrenal insufficiency and adrenal replacement therapy. Current status in Spain.
Adrenal insufficiency (AI) is a rare endocrine disease, associated to increased mortality if left untreated. It can be due to a primary failure of the adrenal glands (primary AI) or malfunctioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) (secondary AI). The lack of data on incidence/prevalence of adrenal insufficiency in Spain complicates any evaluation of the magnitude of the problem i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annales d'Endocrinologie
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0003-4266
DOI: 10.1016/j.ando.2017.10.007