Postmenopausal women may need calcium and vitamin D supplementation for suppression of raised parathyroid hormones (PTH) and for the preservation of bone mass.
Such supplementation should be widespread based on their study among elderly osteopaenic women, declare clinicians at the Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease, University of Hull, Hull, England.
While raised PTH levels, particularly among elderly women, predisposes them to osteoporotic fracture, the actual prevalence of primary or secondary hyperparathyroidism is unknown, the clinicians point out. The major reason is that PTH evaluation is not performed as a screening test among the elderly.
In a study among 190 community living fully mobile postmenopausal women, the clinicians found raised PTH levels in 27 of the women (14.2 percent). The women had densitometrically established osteopaenia, and they consumed an average of 645 (±191) mg of calcium per day.
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