Epidemiologic aspects of postpartum pituitary hypofunction (Sheehan's syndrome).
Two hundred seventy-nine (3.20%) of the 8,730 parous females aged 20-39 years and 124 (4.18%) of 2,970 parous females aged 40 years or older who were screened were suspected to have Sheehan's syndrome; 115 and 55 of these females in the two age groups were fully evaluated, and 98 and 51 of them, respectively, were proven to have Sheehan's syndrome. At these rates, the projected number of women with Sheehan's syndrome among a total population of parous females aged > or =20 years (12,32,827, as per census data) would be 38,691 in the Kashmir valley of the Indian subcontinent.
Zargar
Abdul Hamid
AH
Department of Endocrinology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Kashmir, India. abdulhamidz@vsnl.com
Singh
Bikram
B
Laway
Bashir Ahmad
BA
Masoodi
Shariq Rashid
SR
Wani
Arshad Iqbal
AI
Bashir
Mir Iftikhar
MI
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000378:metabolism*