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Protocol Version Dated April 1, 2000 Major highlights of this version of the Protocol include: Adverse Experience Monitoring has been changed to reflect an FDA waiver of standard Investigational New Drug Serious Adverse Experiences report. WHI adverse experiences will be reviewed by the DSMB every six months through the processing of outcomes and, if appropriate, recommendations made to the NIH to ensure participant safety. Women on anticoagulants is now listed as an exclusion for the HRT component for safety reasons. Current use of calcitriol was added as an exclusion for the CaD component for safety reasons. The upper limit of continued use of Vitamin D as an exclusion for the CaD component from 600 IU to 1000 IU. Also, any CaD participant reporting current use of calcitriol or 1000 IU of Vitamin D will have CaD pills discontinued while on these therapies. The bleeding management and discontinuation of HRT treatment sections have been revised to reflect references to the WHI Procedures Manual 2 for more detail. The revision of Table 6 represents current practice. The WHI Frequency of Data Collection Table in Appendix 1 has been updated to show the collection of the Personal Habits Update which was an inadvertent omission. It also shows the deletion of urine specimens and the addition of physical measures at BMD centers at Year 6. Since the last review, Jacques Rossouw has assumed the responsibility of the Acting WHI Director and several clinical centers have had a change in principal investigators. These changes are noted in Appendix 7. The recent demonstration of increased prevalence of the polymorphic VDR alleles b, a, and T in sporadic primary HPT supports interaction in the largely unknown tumorigenesis of this disorder 1719 ; . In addition to influences on the risk of developing HPT, these polymorphisms currently are linked to Ca2 regulation of PTH release. Homozygosity for VDR alleles b, a, and T and the baT haplotype were associated with greater increases in ED50 and lesser suppression of PTH release. It is tempting to speculate that this relationship depends on hampered regulatory actions of calcitriol from relatively reduced VDR expression in the parathyroid adenomas. Observations of approximately 30% lesser reporter gene activity upon insertion of the baT vs. the BAt haplotype into a minigene construct supports this idea 15 ; . However, any influence of these polymorphisms on VDR transcription and or its mRNA stability in human parathyroid glands is purely speculative. Nevertheless, the VDR genotypes were apparently unrelated to parathyroid [Ca2 ]i. Any allelerelated effect on PTH secretion consequently seems to involve actions other than the Ca2 -sensing proteins on the parathyroid cell surface 5 ; . This hypothesis is consistent with the demonstration that calcitriol interferes with PTH gene transcription 12 ; , but not parathyroid [Ca2 ]i or calcium receptor mRNA levels 9, 24 ; . A variety of circumstances may confound the current observations. The examined VDR polymorphisms may be linked to additional polymorphisms in the VDR gene and or to other genes of importance to parathyroid cell functions. Furthermore, the B b alleles have been related to circulating calcitriol levels and PTH responses after the administration of calcitriol in healthy premenopausal females 15, 25 ; . Patients with the baT haplotype indeed demonstrated no apparent discrepancy with respect to serum Ca2 and PTH levels despite the fact that PTH secretion in vitro was less.

Oral calcitriol The effect of discontinuation of calcitriol therapy on BMD has not been widely studied. Shiraki et al. 10 ; using an analog of vitamin D, 1 -hydroxyvitamin D3, reported a rapid decrease in radial mineral content after its discontinuation and development of new fractures. In another recent study Dawson-Hughes et al. 9 ; reported that the effect of 3 yr treatment using vitamin D and calcium supplements on spine, femoral neck, and total body was lost within 2 yr of discontinuation in women. However, they did observe some lasting beneficial effect on total body BMD in men. The effect of estrogen withdrawal on bone markers resulted in a return to baseline of both urine N-telopeptides and serum osteocalcin, confirming that there was an increase in bone resorption. Thomsen et al. 26 ; also observed that the withdrawal of ERT in early postmenopausal women resulted in reversal of decreased bone turnover markers toward the baseline values within 3 months. Calc8triol withdrawal also led to an increase in urinary N-telopeptides. In addition, serum PTH that had been suppressed by calcitriol therapy returned to baseline, and calcium absorption that increased during calcitriol treatment returned to baseline. In conclusion, our results suggest that withdrawal of ERT HRT and or calcitriol treatment in late postmenopausal women results in increased bone resorption and accelerated bone loss. Most of the loss occurs in the first year of withdrawal of therapy. However, even 2 yr after discontinuation of treatment there was a small residual effect on bone mass, and this was greater in the combination treatment group. 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Calcitriol synthesis of calbindin d Osteoporosis CDRI has developed the compound 99 373 that has shown better anti-osteoporosis activity than raloxifene, during pre-treatment studies on rat. The compound is devoid of any major CVS and CNS side effects on mice and rats found safe in 28 days toxicity studies. It has high therapeutic value. CDRI has, for the first time, establish the osteoblast cell culture from neonatal mouse calvarial cell to confluency. The culture had been used to for establishment of three assay systems. During assay, one of the plant extract, NP-1, showed promising osteogenic activity in vitro, and is under product development stage. The culture has also been used to test forty synthetic compounds and three natural products for their anti-osteoporosis activity. Two of the forty compounds showed promising activity RRL, Jammu has developed a process for the extraction of an enriched extract of calcitriol from a plant found in south India which accumulates this compound in trace amounts. Calicitriol is physiologically active form of Vitamin D3, which plays an important role in uptake of calcium in intestines and bones. The drug has therefore an important role in osteoporosis and skin disorders like psoriasis. The technology for the production of the extract has been scaled up to the pilot plant scale and transferred to M s Genova Biotechniques, Hyderabad. The company has already started the production of the extract for marketing in India. Immunomodulators RRL, Jammu has identified plant based molecule as immunostimulator and tried it with hepatitis vaccine as adjuvant replacing Al OH ; 3. The molecule, RLJ-NE-299A is at the advanced stage of its development as an adjuvant in collaboration with DST and Bharat Biotech Ltd Stroke CDRI has developed a herbal medicament which has shown promising anti-stroke activity along with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties on pretreatment in rat. It has been licensed to M s Themis Medicare Limited, Mumbai under a collaborative-cumlicense agreement for the development of the product. Memory improvement CDRI has evaluated standardized brahmi extract in elderly subjects for age associated memory impairment and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in pediatric cases and found this extract effective against these disorders. M s Lumen Marketing Company, Chennai has launched this product under the trade name "PROMIND". It has also been promoted and marketed with two different trade names viz. MEMORY POWER and MEMORY PERFECT. Diagnostics IGIB has identified common single nucleotide polymorphisms SNPs ; and haplotypes in asthmatics and healthy individuals from an Indian population. The influence of 2 AR SNPs in responsiveness to 2-agonist therapy in asthma patients was determined. It was found that patients with a homozygous Arg-16 form at nucleotide position 46 are poor responders and patients with a homozygous Gly-16 form are good responders with high probability values. This is the first novel pharmacogenomics discovery in Indian population and has potential to become a predictive diagnostic marker. IGIB has reported for the first time, computational HIV-I genome screening by using human micro RNAs for identifying targets. Micro RNAs are increasingly being shown to play vital roles in development, apoptosis and oncogenesis by interfering with gene expression at the post transcription level. 67 and risedronate. We enrolled 24 stable peritoneal dialysis patients in the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong. Inclusion criteria were 1. moderate to severe hyperparathyroidism, defined as a serum intact PTH iPTH ; level greater than 10 pmol L; 2. treatment for at least 4 months with oral calcitriol, either regular or pulse therapy, at static dosage; and 3. stable plasma biochemistry for at least 3 months. Criteria for exclusion included 1. any underlying medical condition eg, malabsorption syndrome or severe liver disease ; that might alter the absorption or metabolism of 1 OH ; D3; 2. any condition that might have precluded a patient from remaining in the study eg, alcohol or drug abuse, malignancy, or psychiatric disorder and 3. plans for parathyroid surgery within 4 months. Informed consent was obtained. Patients were observed for 8 weeks and were maintained on calcitriol therapy. 4.23 There have been few studies of the use of hormone replacement therapy HRT ; in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Hall et al performed a randomised trial of transdermal oestradiol 50 g daily, with oral norethisterone 1 mg daily for 12 days of each 28-day cycle versus calcium 400 mg daily in a group of postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis, 42 21% ; of whom were treated with glucocorticoids.131 In the subgroup receiving glucocorticoid therapy, the mean increases in lumbar spine and femoral BMD were 3.75% and 1.62% respectively, compared with changes of 0.85% and + 1.12% in the calcium treated patients. The difference between groups was statistically significant at the spine at 24 months p 0.05 ; . In another randomised study, Coombes et al studied the effects of 2.5 mg day of tibolone in 37 postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis, all of whom had received long-term glucocorticoid therapy.132 After 24 months of treatment significant treatment benefits were observed in the spine mean BMD increase 4%, p 0.01 versus placebo ; and at the total hip mean increase 4.2%, p 0.02 versus placebo ; . 4.24 In the study of Kung et al, 28 young hypogonadal women with systemic lupus erythematosus treated with long-term glucocorticoid therapy were randomised to receive HRT conjugated oestrogen 0.625 mg daily on days 121 plus medroxyprogesterone 5 mg daily on days 1021 ; or calcitriol 0.5 g daily.133 After two years of treatment, lumbar spine BMD had increased by 2.0 0.4% mean SD ; in the HRT group and decreased by 1.74 0.4% in the calcitriol group p 0.03 ; . A significant treatment benefit was also observed for the total radius BMD p 0.05 ; . In the femoral neck, no significant change in BMD occurred in either group. 4.25 The effects of HRT and calcitriol were compared in a group of women with glucocorticoidinduced osteoporosis.134 Although the mean % change in BMD evaluated by quantitative computed tomography site not stated ; was greater in women receiving HRT 5.8 vs 0.6% ; , this difference was not statistically significant and flutamide.

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A. Jain et al calcium. Serum magnesium: Magnesium levels 1.2 mg dL should be treated Serum phosphate P ; : Phosphate levels are increased in renal failure, top feeding with cow's milk and hypoparathyroidism. Alkaline phosphatase ALP ; : ALP levels are increased in hypovitaminosis D PTH levels: PTH hypoparathyroidism. is decreased in A CT scan may be done to look for Basal ganglion calcifications An ophthalmic for cataract ; and the hearing evaluation is also important An ECHO may be done in case a De George syndrome is suspected If the hypocalcemia is present with hyperphosphatemia and a normal renal function than hypoparathyroidism should be strongly suspected TREATMENT OF LNH The treatment of LNH is specific to etiology and may in certain diseases be life-long Hypomagnesemia: Symptomatic hypocalcemia unresponsive to adequate doses of IV calcium therapy is usually due to hypomagnesemia. It may present either as ENH or later as LNH. The neonate should receive 2 doses of 0.2 ml kg of 50% mgSO4 injection, 12 hours apart, deep IM followed by a maintenance dose of 0.2 ml kg day of 50% mgSO4, PO, 3 days. High phosphate load: These infants have hyperphosphatemia with near normal calcium levels. Exclusive breast-feeding should be encouraged and top feeding with cow's milk should be discontinued. Phosphate binding gels should be avoided. Hypoparathyroidism 9 These infants tend to be hyperphosphatemic and hypocalcemic with normal renal functions. Elevated phosphate levels in the absence of exogenous phosphate load cow's milk ; and presence of normal renal functions indicates parathormone inefficiency. It is important to realize that if the hyperphosphatemia is very high, than adding calcium will lead to calcium deposition and tissue damage, thus attempts should be made to reduce the phosphate keep the Calcium and the phosphate product less than 55 ; .10 These neonates need supplementation with calcium 50 mg kg day in 3 divided doses ; and 1, 25 OH ; 2 vitamin D3 0.5-1 g day ; . Syrup Shelcal has 250 mg 5ml of calcium and vitamin D3 calcitriol ; is available as 0.25 g capsules. Therapy may be stopped in hypocalcemia secondary to maternal hyperparathyroidism after 6 weeks. Vitamin D deficiency states: These babies have hypocalcemia associated with hypophosphatemia due to an intact parathormone response on the kidneys. They benefit from vitamin D3 supplementation in a dose of 3060 ng kg day Monitoring The baby is monitored for the Serum calcium, and phosphate, 24 hour urinary calcium, calcium creatinine ratio. Try to keep the calcium in the lower range, as.

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Tions followed a similar pattern, with levels peaking at 36 h and returning to baseline by the completion of the study. Indeed, analysis of the calcitriol levels VS. time revealed no difference between the two groups F 0.95; P 0.46 ; . Discussion The production of calcitriol in the kidney is controlled by stringent regulation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D-la-hydroxylase activity. Previous studies have documented the existence of two anatomically distinct enzyme systems in the proximal convoluted and proximal straight tubules of rodent models 9-12 ; . The 25-hydroxyvitamin D-la-hydroxylase in the proximal convoluted tubule is PTH responsive, while that in the proximal straight tubule is calcitonin responsive 9-l 1 ; . Studies in the Hyp mouse demonstrate abnormal renal 25hydroxyvitamin D-la-hydroxylase activity in the baseline state and in response to PTH. In contrast, calcitonin administration evokes a normal increment in 25-hydroxyvitamin D-la-hydroxylase 13 ; . In addition, maximally effective doses of calcitonin and PTH in both Hyp and normal mice additively stimulate enzyme function, a finding consistent with the existence of two distinct enzyme systems. Whether a similar incomplete defect in vitamin D metabolism is present in humans with XLH remains unknown. While affected subjects maintain inappropriately normal or decreased serum calcitriol levels and exhibit a subnormal response of the serum 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D concentration to PTH 6, 7, 14 ; , there are no data regarding calcitonin. In the current study, therefore, we compared calcitonin-responsive calcitrio1 production in normal subjects and patients with XLH. Our data illustrate that calcitonin administration significantly increases calcitriol levels in normal subjects. More importantly, calcitonin stimulation in the patients with XLH elicited an increment of the calcitriol concentration that is of comparable degree and similar time course to that in normal subjects. It is possible that decreased catabolism of calcitriol is responsible for the apparent similar increase in 1, 25dihydroxyvitamin D production that we observed in patients with XLH. However, this seems implausible, since the halflife of calcitriol is shortened in the Hyp mouse 20 ; . Thus, defective regulation of calcitriol production in patients with X-linked hypophosphatemia appears incomplete. Alternatively, the normal calcitonin responsiveness that we observed in patients with XLH may be due to the more pronounced increase in serum PTH levels that occurred in response to hypocalcemia. The underlying cause of this aberrant response remains unclear. However, it is unlikely that the small difference in PTH levels provided a greater biological stimulus of la-hydroxylase activity, since patients with XLH exhibit limited alterations in calcitriol levels after pharmacological doses of PTH. Indeed, calcitriol concentrations increased to a greater extent in affected patients in response to calcitonin than in response to PTH in the study by Lyles and Drezner 14 ; . We recognize that McElduff and Posen 21 ; found paradoxical normal PTH stimulation of calcitriol in five patients with congenital hypophosphatemic osteomalacia. However, all of their patients were being treated for their disease at the time of the study, and only.
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The most common adverse events reported by patients receiving 5-30 mg day DITROPAN XL were the expected side effects of anticholinergic agents. The incidence of dry mouth was doserelated. The discontinuation rate for all adverse events was 6.8%. The most frequent adverse event causing early discontinuation of study medication was nausea 1.9% ; , while discontinuation due to dry mouth was 1.2%. In addition, the following adverse events were reported by 2 to 5% patients using DITROPAN XL 5-30 mg day ; in all studies. General: abdominal pain, dry nasal and sinus mucous membranes, accidental injury, back pain, flu syndrome; Cardiovascular: hypertension, palpitation, vasodilatation; Digestive: flatulence, gastroesophageal reflux; Musculoskeletal: arthritis; Nervous: insomnia, nervousness, confusion; Respiratory: upper respiratory tract infec tion, cough, sinusitis, bronchitis, pharyngitis; Skin: dry skin, rash; Urogenital: impaired urination hesitancy ; , increased post void residual volume, urinary retention, cystitis.

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