Survey in Patients With Chronic Adrenal Insufficiency in Germany

University of Wuerzburg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Addison's Disease; Adrenal Insufficiency

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00444119

Wü_NNRIS_45/04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this survey is to assess patients with chronic primary or secondary adrenal failure regarding subjective health status, incidence and causes of adrenal crisis, hormone replacement regimens and concomitant endocrine or non endocrine disease.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age > 18 years
• chronic adrenal failure with disease duration > 12 months and hormone replacement therapy for cortisol deficiency

Exclusion criteria

• adrenal insufficiency due to adrenocortical carcinoma
• AI due to long-term pharmacological glucocorticoid treatment
• glucocortiocid doses above 7.5 mg prednisolone equivalent for other reasons than AI