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From: glenm@athena.UUCP (Glen McCluskey)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: question about hypercalcemia
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 11:24:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 11:24:41 1986
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I know someone who was recently diagnosed as having hypercalcemia.
His chronic intake of calcium from all sources was 1500mg, and of
vitamin D 700iu.

My question is: are these levels of calcium and D enough to cause
the problem?  Goodman & Gilman's pharmacology book says that simply
taking too much calcium alone is unlikely to cause hypercalcemia.
The vitamin D intake, while really too high, doesn't seem like
enough to cause the problem.