[Relationship between parathyroid hormone and magnesium in sera of the dementia patients].
The dementia patients with central nervous or neuro-cerebro vascular disorders seemed to be decreased serum Mg due to abnormal Mg uptake in diet. An increment of PTH level was paralleled with a rise of serum Mg and hypomagnesemic group was shown to have a lower PTH level in these patients. Our results suggested that secondary hypoparathyroidism was likely to be induced by normo-calcemic hypomagnesemia.
Torizumi
K
K
Department of Radiology, Wakayama Medical College, Japan.
Aibata
H
H
Yasui
M
M
Ueyoshi
A
A
Shimizu
E
E
Okamoto
Y
Y
Tuda
T
T
Ota
K
K
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008274:Magnesium / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000097:blood*
D010281:Parathyroid Hormone; D008274:Magnesium