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. 1987 Sep;63(743):745-50.
doi: 10.1136/pgmj.63.743.745.

The incidence and causes of hypercalcaemia

D M Dent  1 , J L Miller, L Klaff, J Barron
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The incidence and causes of hypercalcaemia

D M Dent et al. Postgrad Med J. 1987 Sep.

Abstract

A prospective screen for hypercalcaemia in 58,053 hospital in-patients was conducted over 12 months. The incidence of hypercalcaemia was 0.6%, being transient in 19.2% of patients and sustained in the remainder. The most common causes in the sustained group were malignancy (45%) and primary hyperparathyroidism (16.5%). The incidence of primary hyperparathyroidism was 78/100,000 hospital in-patients, and its discovery was directly attributable to the survey in over half the cases.

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