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Parathyroid hormone in surgery-induced weight loss: no glucometabolic effects but potential adaptive response to skeletal loading.

Valeria GuglielmiAlfonso BelliaPaolo GentileschiMauro LombardoMonica D'AdamoDavide LauroPaolo Sbraccia
Published in: Endocrine (2017)
Circulating PTH decreases with fat mass reduction independent of 25OHD status, but it  is not associated with improvement of insulin resistance and related metabolic parameters. Leptin and PTH may mediate the cross-talk between adipose tissue and parathyroid glands, which possibly contributes to bone adaptation to excess body weight.
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