Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The ‘intact’ parathyroid hormone (PTH) assays recognizes PTH (1–84) as well as amino terminally truncated fragments (C-PTH fragments). The present study investigated whether the use of plasma PTH-(1–84)/C-PTH fragment ratio enhances the noninvasive assessment of bone metabolism in patients on dialysis.Methods: Blood samples of 45 healthy subjects with normal ‘intact’-PTH values and 135 samples of dialysis patient...