Interestingly, there are clear differences between illness
perceptions in acromegaly and other diseases. For
example, acromegalic patients reported more negative illness
perceptions than patients with acute pain or vestibular
schwannoma but more positive illness perceptions
than patients with chronic conditions, like COPD. In addition,
patients in long-term remission of acromegaly reported
somewhat more positive illness perceptions than
patients after long-term remission of Cushing’s syndrome.
Patients with long-term remission of acromegaly perceive
impaired QoL. The illness perceptions in patients with
acromegaly correlated strongly with QoL parameters, in
accordance with observations in other conditions