What is Addison's Disease?
What is Addison's Disease?
- Addison's Disease: A rare progressive hormonal disorder characterized by insufficient production of certain hormones called adrenal corticosteroids.
- Addison's Disease: a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Addison's Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Addison's Disease, or a subtype of Addison's Disease,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Addison's Disease: Introduction
Types of Addison's Disease:
Types of Addison's Disease:
- Primary Adrenal Insufficiency - 70%, autoimmune destruction of the adrenal cortex
- Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency - caused by a tumor or another underlying cause.
- Tuberculosis-caused Addison's
- more types...»
Broader types of Addison's Disease:
How many people get Addison's Disease?
Prevalance of Addison's Disease: 1 in 100,000; 13,335 people in the USA 1996 1
Prevalance Rate of Addison's Disease: approx 1 in 100,000 or 0.00% or 2,720 people in USA [about data]
Who gets Addison's Disease?
Patient Profile for Addison's Disease: All age groups
Gender Profile for Addison's Disease: Mostly women; but occurs in both sexes
How serious is Addison's Disease?
Complications of Addison's Disease:
see complications of Addison's Disease
What causes Addison's Disease?
Causes of Addison's Disease: see causes of Addison's Disease
Cause of Addison's Disease: Failure of adrenal glands to produce cortisol and sometimes aldosterone.
Causes of Addison's Disease:
Failure to produce adequate levels of cortisol,
or adrenal insufficiency, can occur for different reasons. The problem may
be due to a disorder of the adrenal glands themselves (primary adrenal
insufficiency) or to inadequate secretion of ACTH by the pituitary gland
(secondary adrenal insufficiency).
(Source: excerpt from Addison's Disease: NIDDK)
Risk factors for Addison's Disease:
see
risk factors for Addison's Disease
What are the symptoms of Addison's Disease?
Symptoms of Addison's Disease:
see symptoms of Addison's Disease
Complications of Addison's Disease:
see complications of Addison's Disease
Can anyone else get Addison's Disease?
Contagion of autoimmunity:
generally not; see details in contagion of autoimmune diseases.
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Addison's Disease
Addison's Disease: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Addison's Disease.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Addison's Disease.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Addison's Disease:
see treatments for Addison's Disease
Research for Addison's Disease:
see research for Addison's Disease
Organs Affected by Addison's Disease:
Organs and body systems related to Addison's Disease include:
Name and Aliases of Addison's Disease
Main name of condition: Addison's Disease
Class of Condition for Addison's Disease: autoimmune
Other names or spellings for Addison's Disease:
chronic adrenal insufficiency, adrenal insufficiency, chronic, Adrenal hypoplasia, Hypoadrenocorticism, familial, Adrenal aplasia
Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, Hypoadrenalism, Hypoadrenocorticism
Source - WordNet 2.1
Adrenal aplasia, Adrenal cortical hypoplasia, Adrenal hypoplasia, Adrenal insufficiency, Adrenocortical hypofunction, Chronic adrenocortical insufficiency, Hypoadrenocorticism, familial, Adrenal aplasia, Adrenal cortical hypoplasia, Adrenal hypoplasia, Adrenal insufficiency, Adrenocortical hypofunction, Chronic adrenocortical insufficiency, Hypoadrenocorticism, familial
Source - Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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