ea0028p253 | Pituitary | SFEBES2012
Begum Fauzia
, Prague Julia
, Lyall Rebecca
, Ayis Salma
, Aylwin Simon
Objective: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational, cross sectional and longitudinal studies of sleep apnoea syndrome in acromegalic subjects to determine a) prevalence b) effect of treatment and c) relationship to GH and/or IGF-1.Method: A PubMed search using (acromegaly) AND (sleep apnoea) as search terms was performed with subsequent hand searching of relevant papers. Cross sectional and longitudinal studies were ...