parathyroid glands in Podcasts
placeParathyroid glands are four small glands located behind the thyroid gland in the neck, involved in calcium regulation.
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And then what's really interesting about the parathyroid hormone is it's thought that the parathyroid glands developed almost 375 million years ago.
So if you don't have parathyroid hormone, you make far less active vitamin D. So in people who have kidney failure or people who don't have parathyroid glands, we give them activated vitamin D.
And it's really interesting in terms of the treatment for hypoparathyroidism.
So it's possible to get hypoparathyroidism.
And the parathyroid glands have been taken out because they've been stuck buried down into the thyroid.
You can have genetic conditions that cause you to not develop the parathyroid glands or gene changes that don't let you release the hormone.
Do people get underactive parathyroid glands as well?
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