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Table 2 Current biochemical and tumoral disease status

From: Associations between paraclinical parameters, symptoms and quality of life in patients with acromegaly: a cross sectional study

Mean IGF-1 levels (ng/ml)

294 (± 264.8)

Uncontrolled IGF-1 levels

11 (35%)

Uncontrolled GH levels

14 (45%)

Uncontrolled biochemically (GH and/or IGF-1)

17 (54.83%)

Controlled biochemically on both GH and IGF-1

14 (45.17%)

Detectable tumor remnant on last MRI

20 (64%)

  1. IGF-1 Insulin growth factor-1, GH Growth hormone, MRI Magnetic resonance imagining. For the variables expressed as means we expressed the standard deviations in parentheses