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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2014 Nov 11;156(6):1308–1314. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.08.003

Table 4.

IOPTH monitoring

Cinacalcet n=14 No Drug n=102 P value
50% drop achieved by§:
5 minutes, n (%) 1 (7) 4 (4) 0.48
10 minutes, n (%) 4 (28) 20 (20) 0.48
15 minutes, n (%) 14 (100) 93 (92) 0.60
Number of PTH draws to achieve 50% drop 2.64 ± 0.17 2.91 ± 0.08 0.23

Continuous variables are represented as the mean ± SEM unless otherwise indicated

*Statistically significant (P<0.05)

§

Denotes where Fisher's exact test was used