Dr. Mark D Deboer MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
Uva Hospital Lee Street Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Mark Deboer is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Deboer specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
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PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Melanocortin interventions in cachexia: how soon from bench to bedside?
- Differential presentation for children with autoimmune thyroiditis discovered because of symptom development or screening.
- Socioeconomic factors in the development of childhood obesity and diabetes.
- Colitis causes delay in puberty in female mice out of proportion to changes in leptin and corticosterone.
- Ability among adolescents for the metabolic syndrome to predict elevations in factors associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease: data from the national health and nutrition examination survey 1999-2006.
- Puberty is delayed in male mice with dextran sodium sulfate colitis out of proportion to changes in food intake, body weight, and serum levels of leptin.
- High Rate of Obesity-Associated Hypertension among Primary Schoolchildren in Sudan.
- Diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome is associated with disproportionately high levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in non-Hispanic black adolescents: an analysis of NHANES 1999-2008.
- Ghrelin and cachexia: will treatment with GHSR-1a agonists make a difference for patients suffering from chronic wasting syndromes?
- Underdiagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in Non-Hispanic Black Adolescents: A Call
- What can anorexia nervosa teach us about appetite regulation?
- Ethnicity, obesity and the metabolic syndrome: implications on assessing risk and targeting intervention.
- Racial/ethnic and sex differences in the ability of metabolic syndrome criteria to predict elevations in fasting insulin levels in adolescents.
- Use of ghrelin as a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease: mechanistic considerations.
- Racial/ethnic and sex differences in the relationship between uric acid and metabolic syndrome in adolescents: an analysis of National Health and Nutrition Survey 1999-2006.
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