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Simon Aylwin
London Endocrinology
What causes high calcium levels?
Dr Simon Aylwin of London Endocrinology reveals the relationships between high calcium levels and the risk of kidney stones or symptoms such as tiredness and feeling run-down
Transcript
There's a long list of causes of a high calcium, but most of the time, particularly if it's relatively mild or found by chance or because of just vague symptoms, it's because of overactivity of the parathyroid glands. Now, we have four parathyroid glands that sit in our neck and help regulate the level of calcium in the blood. If the parathyroid glands become overactive, then they tend to cause too much calcium to be reabsorbed from the urine and they set the level of calcium a bit high. That leads to a variety of symptoms: tiredness, feeling run down, lethargy, and a risk of kidney stones.
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