TY - JOUR
AU - Heaney, R P
AB - Vol. 81, No. 5 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Printed in U.S.A. Copyright 0 1996 by The Endocrine Society Editorial: Calcium, Parathyroid Function, Bone, and Hyperparathyroidism was first recognized as a distinct 1699) (61, add important evidence that helps to clarify this endocrine disease in 1926. In the ensuing 2-3 decades, when still emerging picture and to integrate some of the foregoing the backlog of undiagnosed patients was found and treated, observations. These investigators report that women over the disorder was commonly characterized as a syndrome of age 65, maintained for 3 yr on a calcium intake averaging 60 ‘%ones, stones, and groans,” reflecting the systems and mmol/day, manifest not the values for PTH secretion and symptoms most prominently involved. Later, newly diag- bone resorption typical of their age, but young adult normal nosed patients with disease of shorter duration were increas- values instead. In other words the increases in both activities ingly found to be less symptomatic. Only rarely any more previously associated with aging are fully reversible if one was there detectable bony abnormality. About 20 years ago, ingests sufficient calcium. McKane et al. also show that the the widespread use of multiphasic blood testing uncovered 
TI - Calcium, parathyroid function, bone and aging
JO - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
DO - 10.1210/jcem.81.5.8626818
DA - 1996-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/calcium-parathyroid-function-bone-and-aging-Me0yv7MaBc
SP - 1697
EP - 1698
VL - 81
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -