High prevalence of abdominal aortic calcification in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism as evaluated by Kauppila score.

Objective: The prevalence of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is unknown. We assessed both prevalence and severity of AAC in PHPT postmenopausal women.

Methods: In this study 70 PHPT postmenopausal women and 70 age- and sex-matched controls were enrolled.