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Vitamin D Deficiency. Recent studies from the National Center for Health Statistics show that about one third of Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, which explains why so many in the US are at risk for low vitamin D levels. Of course, the recent Institute of Medicine report that revised the lower limit of normal for serum 25-OHD to 20 ng/ml will affect these statistics. Many experts continue to believe experimental and observational data that support the premise that 32 ng/ml represents the lower limit of physiological normal, particularly when analyzing the inflection point for optimization of serum PTH concentrations.

Journal of the American Medical Association 1999; 282(14):1344-52 31. Ettinger B et al. Journal of the American Medical Association1999; 282(7):637-45 32. Neer RM et al. New England Journal of Medicine 2001; 344(19):1434-41 33. Chesnut CH et al. Journal of Bone & Mineral Research 2004; 19: 1241-49 34. Black [AU10] et al. New England Journal of Medicine2007; 356:1809-22 38 • Endocrine Essentials: Endocrine Update for General Medicine Investigation & Management 6 of Hypocalcemia Michael A. Levine, MD The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CLINICAL PROBLEM Hypocalcemia is common in hospitalized patients and can be a source of excess morbidity.

Hypoparathyroidism may be transient and resolve during childhood, only to recur during stress or illness. Occasional patients with DGS are not diagnosed until late adulthood. The DGS critical region includes the TBX1 gene, which encodes a transcription factor that is expressed in pharyngeal arches and pouches, and small mutations in this gene have been described in some patients with DGS who are negative for the large 22q11 deletion. DGS can also be caused by large deletions at 10p13 (DGSII). This region includes the GATA3 gene that accounts for the hypoparathyroidismdeafness-renal dysplasia (HDR) syndrome.

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