Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

Pediatric Endocrinology

Dorothy Becker works in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. He has 2 awards "America's Top Doctors" and "Pittsburgh Magazine". Dorothy Becker is also published. He has 33 publications published. The lastest publication: "Is the Risk of Diabetic Ketoacidosis Modifiable?'

Publications

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• Is the Risk of Diabetic Ketoacidosis Modifiable?
• Relationship of adiponectin and leptin with autoimmunity in children with new-onset type 1 Diabetes: a pilot study.
• Prevalence and incidence of clinically recognized cases of Type 1 Diabetes in children and adolescents in Rwanda, Africa.
• Neuronal T-Cell Autoreactivity Is Amplified in Overweight Children With New-Onset Insulin-Requiring Diabetes.
• Glucose control in Rwandan youth with type 1 Diabetes following establishment of systematic, HbA1c based, care and education.
• Management of cystic fibrosis-related Diabetes in children and adolescents.
• Obesity, islet cell autoimmunity and cardiovascular risk factors in youth at onset of type 1 autoimmune Diabetes.
• Transfer from pediatric to adult health care: effects on Diabetes outcomes.
• Large scale prospective T cell function assays in shipped, unfrozen blood samples: experiences from the multicenter TRIGR trial.
• Co-Stimulation Modulation with Abatacept in Patients with Recent-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: Follow-Up One Year After Cessation of Treatment.
• Early Adolescent Relationship Predictors of Emerging Adult Outcomes: Youth With and Without Type 1 Diabetes.
• Changing Impact of Modifiable Risk Factors on the Incidence of Major Outcomes of Type 1 Diabetes: The Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study.
• Long-Term Effects of the Booster-Enhanced READY-Girls Preconception Counseling Program on Intentions and Behaviors for Family Planning in Teens With Diabetes.
• B-Lymphocyte Depletion with Rituximab and Beta-Cell Function: Two-Year Results.
• Characterizing the transition from paediatric to adult care among emerging adults with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Interleukin-1 antagonism in type 1 Diabetes of recent onset: two multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials.
• Emerging Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: A Comparison to Peers Without Diabetes.
• Overcoming Burdens in the Regulation of Clinical Research in Children. Proceedings of a Consensus Conference, in Historical Context.
• Progressive Erosion of {beta}-Cell Function Precedes the Onset of Hyperglycemia in the NOD Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes.
• Cause-specific mortality trends in a large population-based cohort with long-standing childhood-onset type 1 Diabetes.
• All-cause mortality trends in a large population-based cohort with long-standing childhood-onset type 1 Diabetes: the Allegheny County type 1 Diabetes registry.
• Humoral autoimmunity against the extracellular domain of the neuroendocrine autoantigen IA-2 heightens the risk of type 1 Diabetes.
• Targeting of pancreatic glia in type 1 Diabetes.
• The 30-year natural history of type 1 Diabetes complications: the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study experience.
• Should she or shouldn't she?: the relationship between infant feeding practices and type 1 Diabetes in the genetically at risk.
• Changing prevalence of overweight children and adolescents at onset of insulin-treated Diabetes.
• Evidence for heterogeneous pathogenesis of insulin-treated Diabetes in black and white children.
• Insulin resistance-related factors, but not glycemia, predict coronary artery disease in type 1 Diabetes: 10-year follow-up data from the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Di...
• Autoimmune islet destruction in spontaneous type 1 Diabetes is not beta-cell exclusive.
• Subclinical atherosclerosis and estimated glucose disposal rate as predictors of mortality in type 1 Diabetes.
• Detection of symptoms by adolescents and young adults with type 1 Diabetes during experimental induction of mild hypoglycemia: role of hormonal and psychological varia...
• Glycemia (or, in women, estimated glucose disposal rate) predict lower extremity arterial disease events in type 1 Diabetes.

Conditions Treated

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• Diabetes Type 1
• Hypothyroidism
• Short Stature

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Endocrinology

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Blue Card PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• HealthSmart
• Community Blue PPO
• Choice Care PPO
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• UPMC PPO
• UPMC Health Plan

Awards

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• America's Top Doctors
• Pittsburgh Magazine

Education

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• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• University of the Witwatersrand

Hospital

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• UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside

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