Elevated blood-calcium level should be cause for concernDr. Paul DonohuePaul G. Donohue (STANDARD)
300 ELEVATED BLOOD CALCIUM LEVEL AS AN INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC FACTOR IN RENAL CELL CARCINOMAdoi:10.1016/S1569-9056(10)60299-0J. C. BernhardM. CrepelG. VerhoestK. BensalahJ. J. PatardElsevier B.V.European Urology Supplements
In order to maintain homeostasis, parathyroid hormones would stimulate what response to lower blood calcium levels? What ends a hormonal response to increased blood pressure? a) Low blood pressure b) High blood pressure c) A return to homeostasis d) Low blood pressure and a ...
2]. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. This leads to little or no insulin production, resulting in high blood sugar levels. Type 1 diabetes is typically...
levels of LDL cholesterol that increase lipid deposition and inflammatory cell recruitment in vessel walls; chronic inflammation, which triggers the release of proinflammatory cytokines and promotes vascular smooth muscle cell osteogenic differentiation; and mineral imbalance, involving dysregulated calcium and...
In 7 normotensive men, aged 40-70 years, intravenous calcium infusion was carried out at rates of 3.75, 7.5 and 15.0 mgkg body weight-1h-1 for 1 h. The infusions increased serum calcium levels, with significant elevations of blood pressure (BP) and total peripheral resistance (TPR), but...
While the prevalence of elevated serum creatinine level is associated with higher blood pressure in this group, 6.1% of older individuals without hypertension have an elevated serum creatinine level. This represents 18% of all individuals with elevated serum creatinine levels and emphasizes the need ...
No participants had chronic blood losses or chronic intestinal diseases, were chronically treated with blood transfusions or assumed iron supplementation. Approximately half of the study participants (n = 153) have been included in a previously published study of patients undergoing liver ...
The most common causes of rhabdomyolysis are alcohol abuse, muscle exertion, muscle compression, the use of certain medications or illicit drugs and causes may also be of traumatic, heat-related, ischemic, infectious, inflammatory, metabolic and endocrinological origin. In our case we could not dete...
To better understand the role of the urea-to-creatinine ratio in chronic kidney disease patients, we assessed the epidemiology of the urea-to-creatinine ratio among hospitalised chronic kidney disease patients, and the association between the urea-to-creatinine ratio and inpatient clinical outcomes. ...