Dr. Alvin M. Matsumoto M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
1660 S Columbian Way Va Puget Sound Healt Seattle WA, 98108About
Dr. Alvin Matsumoto practices Geriatric Medicine in Seattle, WA. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Matsumoto works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Univ of Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Testosterone release from a subcutaneous, biodegradable microcapsule formulation (Viatrel) in hypogonadal men.
- Andropause: clinical implications of the decline in serum testosterone levels with aging in men.
- Testosterone (T)-induced changes in arcuate nucleus cocaine-amphetamine-regulated transcript and NPY mRNA are attenuated in old compared to young male brown Norway rats: contribution of T to age-related changes in cocaine-amphetamine-regulated transc
- Troglitazone treatment of aging Brown Norway rats improves food intake and weight gain after fasting without increasing hypothalamic NPY gene expression.
- The long-term effect of specific type II 5alpha-reductase inhibition with finasteride on bone mineral density in men: results of a 4-year placebo controlled trial.
- Testosterone supplementation therapy for older men: potential benefits and risks.
- Suppression of hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene expression by daily melatonin supplementation in aging rats.
- Neonatal 6-hydroxydopamine administration to mice is fatal.
- Multiple organ pathology, metabolic abnormalities and impaired homeostasis of reactive oxygen species in Epas1-/- mice.
- Blunted hypothalamic neuropeptide gene expression in response to fasting, but preservation of feeding responses to AgRP in aging male Brown Norway rats.
- Increased hypothalamic melanin concentrating hormone gene expression during energy restriction involves a melanocortin-independent, estrogen-sensitive mechanism.
- Dihydrotestosterone and the prostate: the scientific rationale for 5alpha-reductase inhibitors in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
- Prevalence and incidence of androgen deficiency in middle-aged and older men: estimates from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study.
- Intramuscular testosterone enanthate plus very low dosage oral levonorgestrel suppresses spermatogenesis without causing weight gain in normal young men: a randomized clinical trial.
- Serum testosterone and estradiol in sudden infant death.
Treatments
- Osteoporosis
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