Jean-Jacques Body

TL;DR: No single assessment tool considers all the different components of dyspnea, and the final choice will depend on the purpose of the assessment, taking into account that the provision of quality of life is of paramount importance to patients who have limited time left to them and that the assessment should not therefore detract from the quality oflife by being overlong, complicated or invasive.

TL;DR: The process that causes hypothyroidism in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease can also cause marked CT deficiency, and this first demonstration of spontaneous CT deficiency in adults should contribute to the understanding of CT physiology; it also suggests that bone metabolism should be closely monitored during the treatment of primary hypothy thyroid disease.

TL;DR: Health technology assessment is increasingly used in the field of osteoporosis and could be very useful to help decision makers efficiently allocate health-care resources and suggest that the recent advances in the prevention and treatment of osteopsorosis may constitute an efficient basis for the allocation of scarce health- Care resources.

TL;DR: The plasma concentration of the hCG-like substance is normally very low but dependent on gonadal function in women, and its concentration is much increased in postmenopausal women with breast carcinoma.

TL;DR: A significant prevalence of an increased renal tubular reabsorption of calcium index in hypercalcemia of malignancy and a substantial proportion of patients with detectable PTHrP is indicated.