Bone health Parameters and Polymorphisms of Calcium Sensi...
Majid, Hafsa / Moatter, Tariq / Habib, Aysha
Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) has been reported from Pakistan in randomly selected healthy volunteers, patients and community females. In all studies a variable proportion (25.9%-31%) of the subjects had secondary hyperparathyroidism, as a compensatory response to VDD. However, a significant number of subjects with VDD show blunted Parathyroid hormone response. This phenomenon has been described in literature as functional hypoparathyroidism. we ...