eighteen acromegalic patients ( a ) and 18 controls without clinical evidence of cardiac involvement and/or endocrine disease ( c ) , matched for sex , age , body surface area , and blood pressure ( bp ) , were investigated by m-mode ( 2-d derived ) echocardiography , to clarify the prevalence and the possible determinants of left ventricular hypertrophy ( lvh ) .
C0001206
acromegalic
C0014130
endocrine disease