Seyyed Hamid Hashemi
Department of Infectious Disease,
Mohammad Taghi Goodarzi
Department of Biochemistry,
Seyyed Farzad Jamalian
Center for Disease Control,
Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran
ABSTRACT
To investigate the incidence of hypercalcemia in TB patients and to assess its relationship with TB, a study was conducted in Infectious Diseases Division of Sina Hospital in Hamedan province (west of Iran). During an 18-month period, 65 patients with newly-diagnosed TB (30 males and 35 females), were prospectively evaluated who aged between 15 and 84 years (mean 53.3 years). Age- and sex-matched subjects (82) with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (27 males and 55 females), aged between 16 and 85 (mean 53.5 years) was selected as a control group. Serum calcium, phosphorus, total protein, albumin and alkaline phosphatase were measured in all subjects. No significant difference was found between the mean albumin-adjusted calcium levels in the TB group (8.79±1.53 mg dL-1) and the control group (8.57±1.12 mg dL-1). Hypercalcemia was found in 11 (16.9 %) of TB patients and 6 (7.3 %) of controls (χ2 = 3.27, p = 0.07, non significant). This study revealed that there is non significant difference association between hypercalcemia and tuberculosis.
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Seyyed Hamid Hashemi, Mohammad Taghi Goodarzi and Seyyed Farzad Jamalian, 2005. Serum Calcium Levels in Newly-diagnosed Patients with Tuberculosis in Hamedan (West of Iran). Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 1659-1662.
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.1659.1662
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.1659.1662
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.1659.1662
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.1659.1662
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