Endocrine Abstracts

Recent epidemiological studies of primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease) in Scandinavia have identified an average age at diagnosis of less than 40 (Bergthorsdottir 2006 n=1675, Erichsen 2009 n=426). They also found a broader range of ages than earlier UK studies, which had suggested that the majority of diagnoses occur in the third to fifth decades of life (Kong 1994, n=86). We analysed all membership records for the UK Addison’s Disease S...