European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the Tarsan stripes tuesday. June 10, 1980 modern Medicine .,.n can Resu of the parathyroid glands arc Liny pea shaped structures variable number located the neck adjacent to Para the thyroid gland. Normally they cannot be Felt or seen from the outside and. Normally their All important function it taken Foi granted As part of daily living. The parathyroid glands control Calcium metabolism within the body. Although the have a number of different effects they primarily secrete a hormone Para hormone that acts to keep the blood Calcium level at Normal Range by removing Calcium from the Bone and regulating Calcium absorption the intestinal tract. Since Calcium is not Only essential part of one Structure but also involved cellular functions throughout the body proper regulation of Calcium Levels is essential to Good health. Part of the Para Thormond function for example is to assure that even if individual takes excessive amount of Calcium his diet the blood Calcium level docs not go too High. Conversely during starvation or when individual is a Low Calcium diet the parathyroid glands become More Active bringing out More Calcium from the Bones to keep the blood level Normal. Sometimes however the parathyroid glands become extractive for no known reason. This condition called hyperparathyroidism is signalled by extremely High blood Calcium level and eventually results fragile Bones leached of Calcium abnormal Calcium Deposit body tissues and kidney stones. Hyperparathyroidism was once believed to be a rare disease. This was because it was comparatively difficult to determine the blood Calcium level and blood Calcium tests were therefore done Only patients whom the disease was already suspected. Now that a simplified method of testing is available blood Calcium Levels Are done routinely As a screening procedure healthy individuals and mild hyperparathyroidism without any of the classic signs of bad Bones or kidney stones is a relatively common finding. A recent Survey Rochester minn., showed that once blood Calcium tests were routinely done As a screening procedure healthy individuals is cases of hyperparathyroidism were found Only two and a half years compared to 39 cases the previous nine and a half years. Some experts have suggested that there May be As Many As a million cases of hyperparathyroidism the United states parathyroid gland fragile Bones the unsuspected frequency of the illness and the fact that the Only definitive treatment is surgical exploration of the neck and removal of the diseased glands some experts now suggest that not All cases of mild hyperparathyroidism without symptoms need be operated . The disease is slow to evolve and rarely has any emergency developments. As Long As the individual feels Well and there is no evidence of Early complications of hyperparathyroidism All that May be necessary is to Check the blood Calcium Levels at regular intervals progressing to surgery Only if actual Organ damage begins. Id a chm i. Hmm Wilim. . Arthritis link to heredity now proved doctor says Atlanta a there is conclusive proof that susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis is inherited a doctor told the arthritis foundation s annual National scientific conference. We have clearly demonstrated that the genetic Marker arthritis is linked to a particular chromosome and is transmitted through heredity said or. Peter Stalny of the University of Texas health science Center Dallas. Rheumatoid arthritis is one of the most feared types of connective tissue disease be cause it usually lasts a lifetime and causes so Kmat is your first priority As tic tvo com Maht er.4lft� it. Paoish to make general. By acre crippling. Some 614 million americans suffer from it. Discovery of the heredity link could Lead to techniques for preventing rheumatoid arthritis Stastny said. For the first time we now will be Able to identify family members of rheumatoid arthritis patients who have the Gene which Predis poses to the disease but do not actually have the disease he said. We can study How these predisposed individuals differ from Normal peo ple without the Gene 10 determine exactly what the predisposition actually eventually he said researchers Hope to Dis cover what other factors must occur to trigger the development of rheumatoid arthritis. The report was based studies of 12 families each with at least two members having rheumatoid arthritis. 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