Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: Hypertension is an independent factor of cardiovascular morbidity in acromegaly patients. Obstructive sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is the most common respiratory impairment in acromegaly and is considered one of the mechanisms underlying the development of hypertension in this disorder.Aim: To study blood pressure parameters and prevalence of hypertension in naïve acromegaly patients depending on the presence of moderate-to-severe obstr...