While acromegaly usually does not make adults tall giants as gigantism do in children, it comes with a host of other health problems.
THE changes were so gradual, it took former accountant Ling Poh Hwa and his doctors five years to figure out he had acromegaly – a condition where there is an excess of growth hormones in the body. His annual blood tests showed a steady rise in his blood alkaline phosphatase* (ALP) level, but nothing else seemed to be wrong with him.
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