Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Elevated parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels are associated with increased cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the patients with impaired kidney function. We aimed to investigate whether PTH levels are associated with CVD in persons without significant renal diseases.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study and we included 1951 Korean subjects aged ≥30 years (men 46.6%), who underwent 64-slice multidetector-row cardiac computed tomography (...