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BACKGROUND
Similar to other disease states, we postulated that African American patients present with more severe signs of primary hyperparathyroidism than non-African Americans. To test this hypothesis, we compared relevant preoperative laboratory values, sestamibi scan results, and intraoperative
Serum calcium inorganic phosphorus, protein and alkaline phosphatase as well as urine calcium were studied in fifty-five primigravid Nigerian women during pregnancy and postnatal period. Each patient was seen at the various stages of pregnancy and thus acted as her own control. Serum calcium levels
An acid phosphatase activity has been detected in purified preparations of African swine fever virus. Purified viral cores obtained after Nonidet-P40 and 2-mercaptoethanol treatment of the virus retained the activity as assayed with nitrophenyl phosphate as substrate at pH 5. Enzyme cytochemistry by
Eighty-eight African patients with amoebic liver abscess are described. The diagnosis was readily made in pyrexial patients who had right-sided upper abdominal pain, an enlarged, very tender liver and signs at the right base. However, in apyrexial subjects (10%) and where abdominal pain was absent
In general, glycerol kinases (GKs) are transferases that catalyze phospho group transfer from ATP to glycerol, and the mechanism was suggested to be random bi-bi. The reverse reaction i.e. phospho transfer from glycerol 3-phosphate (G3P) to ADP is only physiologically feasible by the African
OBJECTIVE
To determine the vitamin D status of older coloured' South Africans who had not sustained a fracture.
METHODS
Cross-sectional analytic study.
METHODS
A random sample of 200 non-institutionalised subjects in Cape Town aged > or = 65 years was drawn using a two-stage cluster design. Trained
Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is postulated to modulate insulin action by dephosphorylating the insulin receptor signaling proteins and attenuating insulin signaling. We sought to determine the relationship of skeletal muscle PTP1B to whole-body insulin sensitivity. We studied 17 African
Noninvasive measures of bone activity include intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BSAP). Whether BSAP measurement alone or in combination with other biochemical data provides more reliable information about bone turnover than iPTH alone in African Americans on
OBJECTIVE
Serum alkaline phosphatase has been associated with increased mortality in hemodialysis patients but its associations with mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages III and IV are unknown. Design, settings, participants & measurements: In 1094 participants in the African-American
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the characteristics of infants and children diagnosed with nutritional rickets at two medical centers in North Carolina in the 1990s.
METHODS
The physical and radiographic findings, calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels of infants and children
To determine the proportion of vitamin D insufficiency in 6- to 10-year-old preadolescent African-American children residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and to estimate their therapeutic response to vitamin D 400 IU/day for 1-month, an open-label pre- and post-comparison of vitamin D status