Geoffrey Faber Lewis MD
Internist
910 Berkshire Road Smithfield NC, 27577About
Dr. Geoffrey Lewis is an internist practicing in Charleston, SC. Dr. Lewis specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Lewis provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Elevated plasma lipids in patients with binge eating disorders are found only in those who are anorexic.
- Prolonged elevation of plasma free fatty acids desensitizes the insulin secretory response to glucose in vivo in rats.
- Resistance to insulin's acute direct hepatic effect in suppressing steady-state glucose production in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
- Counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia differs according to the insulin delivery route, but does not affect glucose production in normal humans.
- Free fatty acids impair hepatic insulin extraction in vivo.
- Triglyceride enrichment of HDL enhances in vivo metabolic clearance of HDL apo A-I in healthy men.
- Acute enhancement of insulin secretion by FFA in humans is lost with prolonged FFA elevation.
- HDL metabolism in hypertriglyceridemic states: an overview.
- A stable isotope method using a [(2)H(5)]glycerol bolus to measure very low density lipoprotein triglyceride kinetics in humans.
- Lipid metabolism.
- Mechanisms of hepatic very low density lipoprotein overproduction in insulin
- Beta-blockade, but not normoglycemia or hyperinsulinemia, markedly diminishes stress-induced hyperglycemia in diabetic dogs.
- Prolonged elevation of plasma free fatty acids impairs pancreatic beta-cell function in obese nondiabetic humans but not in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
- Portal venous and enteric exocrine drainage versus systemic venous and bladder exocrine drainage of pancreas grafts: clinical outcome of 40 consecutive transplant recipients.
- Bimonthly update. Lipid metabolism.
Geoffrey Faber Lewis MD's Practice location
North Carolina Heart & Vascular (Smithfield)
910 Berkshire Road -Smithfield, NC 27577Get Direction
North Carolina Heart & Vascular (Wilson)
2605 Forest Hills Road SW Suite D -Wilson, NC 27893Get Direction
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