Articles

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Double Diabetes: The Evolving Treatment Paradigm in Children and Adolescents, Vitamins and Trace Elements (2013)

The global pandemic of obesity in children and adolescents has resulted in a new expression...

 

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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels do not correlate with asthma severity in a case-controlled study of children and adolescents (with Jennifer Menon and Louise Maranda), Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (2012)

Background: There is no consensus on the association between vitamin D and asthma.

Objective: To...

 

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Stroke in a child with Adams-Oliver syndrome and mixed diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome (with Seema Adhami and Alan D. Rogol), Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (2012)

Diabetes mellitus complicated by mixed diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome presents a special challenge...

 

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Is vitamin D deficiency a feature of pediatric celiac disease? (with Jeffrey Villanueva and Louise Maranda), Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (2012)

Background: Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune enteropathy characterized by villus atrophy and malabsorption of...

 

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Does Hepatic Dysfunction Worsen Glucose Homeostasis by Impairing Vitamin D Metabolism?, Vitamins & Trace Elements (2012)

The Management of diabetes mellitus (DM) remains an enigma even though the symptoms of the...

 

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Hepatic dysfunction is associated with vitamin D deficiency and poor glycemic control in diabetes mellitus (with Zheni G. Stavre, Louise Maranda, Karen Cullen, and Mary M. Lee), Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (2012)

Background/Aims: The effect of the rising prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease on the 25-hydroxylation...

 

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Pseudohypoparathyroidism in Children, Endocrinology/Diabetes (2011)

Summary: Albright hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO) is a genetic syndrome characterized by a distinctive set of...

 

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A potential role for adjunctive vitamin D therapy in the management of weight gain and metabolic side effects of second-generation antipsychotics (with Bruce Meltzer, Louise Maranda, Carol A. Ciccarelli, Daniel Reynolds, Laura A. Curtis, Jean A. King, Jean A. Frazier, and Mary M. Lee), Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (2011)

Second-generation antipsychotic (SGA) medications introduced about 20 years ago are increasingly used to treat psychiatric...

 

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Evidence of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 proteolysis during growth hormone stimulation testing (with Leslie A. Soyka, Amanda Angelescu, and Mary M. Lee), Journal of pediatric endocrinology and metabolism : JPEM (2011)

OBJECTIVES: The ternary complex is composed of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I, IGF binding protein (IGFBP)-3...

 

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Hypothyroidism in children and adolescents, Pediatrics for Parents (2010)

Hypothyroidism is a term that describes insufficient levels or absolute lack of thyroid hormone in...

 

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Design of a family-based lifestyle intervention for youth with type 2 diabetes: the TODAY study (with The TODAY Study Group), International journal of obesity (2005) (2010)

Type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity and is increasing at an alarming rate in...

 

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Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a and insulin resistance in a child (with Mary M. Lee), Nature reviews. Endocrinology (2009)

Background. A 5-year-old white girl with a history of hypothyroidism in infancy presented to the...

 

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Do Atypical Antipsychotic Agents Trigger Autoimmune Diabetes? (with Olga T. Hardy, Amanda Angelescu, Leslie A. Soyka, and Mary M. Lee), Endocrinologist (2009)

Atypical or second-generation antipsychotic agents, such as aripiprazole and olanzapine, are increasingly used in the...

 

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Newborn with klinefelter syndrome and posterior urethral valves (with Timothy B. Hopkins), Urology (2008)

We describe the case of a 10-day-old term infant with 47,XXY, in association with posterior...

 

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Evaluation of short and tall stature in children (with Mary M. Lee), American family physician (2008)

Children and adolescents whose heights and growth velocities deviate from the normal percentiles on standard...

 

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Multifetal Pregnancy May Increase the Risk for Severe Maternal and Neonatal Vitamin D Deficiency (with Leslie A. Soyka, Amanda Angelescu, Olga T. Hardy, and Mary M. Lee), Endocrinologist (2008)

Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in pregnant women. This deficiency could be exaggerated in multifetal...

 

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A novel activating mutation in transmembrane helix 6 of the thyrotropin receptor as cause of hereditary nonautoimmune hyperthyroidism (with Loukas Gourgiotis, Marvin C. Gershengorn, and Susanne Neumann), Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association (2006)

Constitutively-activating germline mutations of the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) gene are very rare and are considered...

 

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Rieger's anomaly and other ocular abnormalities in association with osteogenesis imperfecta and a COL1A1 mutation (with Margarita Raygada, Ekaterini T. Tsilou, Owen M. Rennert, and Constantine A. Stratakis), Ophthalmic genetics (2005)

A patient with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and some features of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome had Rieger's anomaly...

 

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Lack of telomere shortening with age in mouse resting zone chondrocytes (with Ola Nilsson, Robert D. Mitchum Jr., Marilena Coco, Kevin M. Barnes, and Jeffrey Baron), Hormone research (2005)

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Telomeres are hexameric repeat sequences that flank eukaryotic chromosomes. The telomere hypothesis...

 

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Short stature with normal growth hormone stimulation testing: lack of evidence for partial growth hormone deficiency or insensitivity (with Marilena Coco, Joy Jones, Kevin M. Barnes, Jack A. Yanovski, and Jeffrey Baron), Hormone research (2004)

OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that children with short stature and peak stimulated GH (pGH)...

 

Contributions to Books

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Double Diabetes: The Search for a Treatment Paradigm in Children and Adolescents, Hot Topics in Endocrine and Endocrine-Related Diseases (2013)

Discusses double diabetes -- the coexistence of features of both type 1 and type 2...

 

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Pediatrics for Parents Podcast Show 107: Short Stature (Audio File), Endocrinology/Diabetes (2010)

Interview (mp3 audio file, 13 MB, 29 minutes) by Benjamin Nwosu, MD with Rich Sagall,...