Patent ID: 7122530

Claim:
A method of achieving an effect in a patient in need thereof comprising administering an effective amount of a vitamin D compound which is a 24-hydroxyvitamin D compound wherein the effect is treating hyperparathyroidism, and wherein said 24-hydroxyvitamin D is a compound of formula (I): wherein Z is a side chain of formula (IIB): wherein R 5 and R 6 are each hydrogen or taken together form a double bond between C-22 and C-23, R 3 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower fluoroalkyl, lower alkenyl or lower fluoroalkenyl; R 4 is lower alkyl, lower fluoroalkyl, lower alkenyl or lower fluoroalkenyl; and R 1 and R 2 are independently hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower fluoroalkyl, lower alkenyl, lower fluoroalkenyl, lower cycloalkyl or taken together with the carbon to which they are bonded form a C 3 –C 8 cyclocarbon ring; Y is a methylene group if Y is double bonded to the A-ring or a methyl group or hydrogen if Y is single bonded; and X is hydrogen, lower alkyl or lower fluoroalkyl.