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Article: Parathyroid hypertensive factor. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
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- August 1, 2002
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Dr. Jonathan Wright's Nutrition & Healing newsletter (January 1996) had an interview with Dr. Peter K. T. Pang, Professor Emeritus, and former Professor and Chair, of the Department of Physiology at Canada's University of Alberta (Edmonton). While studying calcium levels in the body, Dr. Pang and his colleagues discovered a hormone that they called the parathyroid hypertensive factor (PHF). They found that the presence of excess PHF often precedes hypertension, particularly low-renin hypertension. A complete presentation of their work can be found in the Journal of Hypertension 1996;14:1053-1060.
Extracellular calcium levels are normally 10,000 times higher than ...