Dr. Jonathan Quentin Purnell MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Jonathan Purnell practices Endocrinology in Portland, OR. Dr. Purnell specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Purnell examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Or Hlth Sci Univ Sch of Med, Portland Or 1986
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Increased small dense LDL and intermediate-density lipoprotein with albuminuria in type 1 diabetes.
- Levels of leptin during hydrocortisone infusions that mimic normal and reversed diurnal cortisol levels in subjects with adrenal insufficiency.
- A hepatic lipase gene promoter polymorphism attenuates the increase in hepatic lipase activity with increasing intra-abdominal fat in women.
- Changes in LDL density across the menopausal transition.
- Relationship of insulin sensitivity and ApoB levels to intra-abdominal fat in subjects with familial combined hyperlipidemia.
- Adipose tissue fatty acid composition in humans with lipoprotein lipase deficiency.
- The contribution of intraabdominal fat to gender differences in hepatic lipase activity and low/high density lipoprotein heterogeneity.
- Metabolic abnormalities in HIV type 1-infected children treated and not treated with protease inhibitors.
- Evidence-based nutrition principles and recommendations for the treatment and prevention of diabetes and related complications.
- Plasma ghrelin levels after diet-induced weight loss or gastric bypass surgery.
- Evidence-based nutrition principles and recommendations for the treatment and prevention of diabetes and related complications.
- Serum ghrelin levels are inversely correlated with body mass index, age, and insulin concentrations in normal children and are markedly increased in Prader-Willi syndrome.
- Roles of leptin and ghrelin in the loss of body weight caused by a low fat, high carbohydrate diet.
- Köbberling type of familial partial lipodystrophy: an underrecognized syndrome.
- PLTP activity decreases with weight loss: changes in PLTP are associated with changes in subcutaneous fat and FFA but not IAF or insulin sensitivity.
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Treatments
- Diabetes
- High Cholesterol
- Obesity
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Vascular Disease
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
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