Epidemiology of adrenal tumours in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adrenal tumours are commonly encountered in clinical practice, but epidemiological data mainly originate from referral centres. We aimed to determine incidence, prevalence, and rates of malignancy and hormone excess in patients with adrenal tumours in a standardised geographically well defined population.

Methods

In this retrospective population-based cohort study we assessed the standardised incidence rate of adrenal tumours in all patients with tumours who lived in Olmsted County, MN, USA, from Jan 1, 1995, to Dec 31, 2017. The Rochester Epidemiology Project infrastructure, which links medical records across all health-care providers for the entire population of Olmsted County since 1966, was used to allow researchers to identify individuals with specific diagno

SUBMITTER: Ebbehoj A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7601441 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature