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Curr Hypertens Rep
January 2025
Department of Endocrinology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India.
Purpose Of Review: Hypertension remains a major chronic disease morbidity across the world, even in the twenty-first century, affecting ≈40% of the global population, adversely impacting the healthcare budgets in managing the high incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications and mortality because of elevated blood pressure (BP). However, evaluation and management of endocrine hypertension are not optimal in clinical practice. With three unique clinical case scenarios, we update the evidence base for diagnostic evaluation and management of endocrine hypertension in this review to inform appropriate day-to-day clinical practice decisions.
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December 2024
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medical Science, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Purpose: Acromegaly, a rare disease with peak incidence in early adulthood, is marked by significant diagnostic delay and increased mortality due to complications. While older patients often show milder disease activity, they experience longer diagnostic delay. Higher hormonal levels, advanced age, and prolonged delay are associated with more systemic complications.
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December 2024
Endocrinology & Nutrition Department, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol. CIBERER U747 (ISCIII), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.
Acromegaly-induced diabetes presents unique features due to the direct effects of excess growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-) on glucose metabolism, especially insulin resistance in association to low body fat content and water retention. Increased cardiovascular risk is much higher when acromegaly is complicated with diabetes, thus requiring a holistic management that addresses also these specific characteristics which differ from those of classical type 2 diabetes.The optimal management of diabetes in acromegaly requires not only an effective control of carbohydrate disturbances per se, but also the concurrent control of GH hypersecretion as it will directly impact on glucose control.
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December 2024
Departments of Endocrinology, Leeds Centre for Diabetes & Endocrinology, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.
With the current therapeutic modalities available to endocrinologists, control of GH and IGF-I is now possible in almost all patients with acromegaly with multi-modality therapy. Despite biochemical control of GH and IGF-I, patients with acromegaly continue to experience impaired quality of life. Although there are likely multiple factors contributing to this dissatisfaction with current medical therapies, in particular the widely utilised injectable long-acting somatostatin receptor ligands (iSRL), is a contributor.
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