Epidemiology of patients with adenomas of pituitary in industrial city

• Published in: Bi͡u︡lletenʹ Sibirskoĭ medit͡s︡iny Vol. 8; no. 1(2); pp. 95 - 99
• Main Authors: Shakhvorost, N. P., Zhestikova, M. G., Meechkayeva, V. I., Dantsiger, D. G., Aikeena, T. P., Bryzgalina, S. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk) 28.02.2009
• Subjects: аденома гипофиза; заболеваемость; эпидемиология
• ISSN: 1682-0363; 1819-3684
• DOI: 10.20538/1682-0363-2009-1(2)-95-99

Adenomas of pituitary (AP) make up about 10% of all intracranial tumours, which are met in practice of an endocrinologist or neurologist. As a rule AP are sporadically, however one must not consider them as an isolated disease. 52–62% of patients with hyperprolactinemia have AP. According to the data of. Federal Several of state statistics of the Russian Federation (2006) the amount of sick people with hyperprolactinemia among adult population can very from 214 thousand to 2 million people. About 80% make up young women at the age of 24–40 years old. 25% AP do not show superfluous hormonal secretion, they are clinically hormonally inactive, that embarrasses early diagnosis. In Novokuznetsk more than 50% of volumetrically brain formations make up AP. For last 10 years primary diseases AP has increased in 1.6 times. In Novokuznetsk there are factors increasing risk of forming of different neuroendocrinal diseases, high quantities of individual and population risks of oncologist pathology, deterioration of reproductive health, high levels of invalidism of population at able-towork age because of environment pollution and harmful work conditions. The examinations of expansion of AP disease at citizens of town Novokuznetsk show the necessity of introduction of register of dispensary for this category of sick people.