Joint appointment in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center
Gastroenterology
Dr. Lawrence J. Cheskin, MD
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Lawrence J. Cheskin, MD is an expert in the field of Gastroenterology. He attended Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth has a rank of 37 in research and a 29 in primary care He has 9 awards "Top Doctors", "Who's Who in America listee", "Physician Nutrition Specialist Award", "John A. Hartford Scholar in Geriatric Medicine", "Fellow", "National Merit Scholarship Finalist", "Dr. Jonas E. Salk Scholarship", "Certificate of Recognition" and "Young Investigator Award". Lawrence Cheskin is a published physician. He published 97 publications, including: 'Body mass index, smoking, and mortality among older American women.'
Publications
- Self-Reported GastroIntestinal Symptoms in Type 2 Diabetes Improve With an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention: Results From the Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD...
- Association between sleep-disordered breathing, obstructive sleep apnea, and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Consumer understanding of calorie labeling: a healthy monday e-mail and text message intervention.
- An Unjustified Conclusion from Self-report-based Estimates of Energy Intake.
- Developing role models for health in the fire service: a pilot case study.
- Effect of childhood obesity prevention programmes on blood lipids: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Sex Differences in Short-term and Long-term All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treated by Primary Percutaneous Interven...
- Evaluation of early weight loss thresholds for identifying nonresponders to an intensive lifestyle intervention.
- Positive effect of mushrooms substituted for meat on body weight, body composition, and health parameters. A 1-year randomized clinical trial.
- A systematic review of home-based childhood obesity prevention studies.
- Working inside the firehouse: developing a participant-driven intervention to enhance health-promoting behaviors.
- Perspectives on Obesity and Its Treatment: Health Care Providers and the General Public in Rural West Virginia and Urban Baltimore.
- Nutraceutical supplements for weight loss: a systematic review.
- Americans with Diet-Related Chronic Diseases Report Higher Diet Quality Than Those without These Diseases.
- A personal-contact weight-loss maintenance intervention reduced weight regain in overweight and obese adults.
- Ethnic differences in dairy and related nutrient consumption among US adults and their association with obesity, central obesity, and the metabolic syndrome.
- Efficacy of meal replacements versus a standard food-based diet for weight loss in type 2 diabetes: a controlled clinical trial.
- Obesity and the risk of colon polyps.
- Olestra is associated with slight reductions in serum carotenoids but does not markedly influence serum fat-soluble vitamin concentrations.
- Plasma ghrelin levels are normal in obese patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri).
- Randomized trial of buprenorphine for treatment of concurrent opiate and cocaine dependence.
- Is olestra consumption associated with changes in dietary intake, serum lipids, and body weight?
- Review: oral protein and energy supplements reduce all-cause mortality in elderly persons.
- Diet and exercise habits of patients with diabetes, dyslipidemia, cardioVascular disease or hypertension.
- Diet and lifestyle correlates of lutein in the blood and diet.
- Continuous and intermittent sibutramine were equally effective at 44 weeks for reducing weight in obese persons.
- Association between obesity and kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Clinical syndrome of occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery; report of three cases.
- Hyperthyroidism with carcinoma of the colon in sisters.
- Sickle-cell hemoglobin/hemoglobin-C disease. A report of three cases.
- CardioVascular responses to naloxone challenge in opiate-dependent individuals.
- Method for prolonged ambulatory monitoring of high-amplitude propagated contractions from colon.
- Endoscopist's nirvana or new heartburn for third-party payers?
- Evidence for exacerbation of irritable bowel syndrome during menses.
- Constipation in the elderly living at home. Definition, prevalence, and relationship to lifestyle and health status.
- The fate of the rectal segment after diversion of the fecal stream in Crohn's disease: its implications for surgical management.
- Proctitis after fecal diversion in Crohn's disease and its elimination with reanastomosis: implications for surgical management. Report of four cases.
- Diverticular disease. Epidemiology and pharmacological treatment.
- Mechanisms of constipation in older persons and effects of fiber compared with placebo.
- A controlled comparison of buprenorphine and clonidine for acute detoxification from opioids.
- Functional bowel disorders in women with dysmenorrhea.
- Sterile epidural and bilateral psoas abscesses in a patient with Crohn's disease.
- Prevalence of gastroIntestinal symptoms in obese and normal weight binge eaters.
- Diverticular disease in the elderly.
- Assessment of nalmefene glucuronide as a selective gut opioid antagonist.
- Health-related quality of life in obese persons seeking treatment.
- Improved detection of malnutrition by medical housestaff following focused-teaching intervention.
- Predicting treatment attendance and weight loss: assessing the psychometric properties and predictive validity of the Dieting Readiness Test.
- Predictors of quality of life for obese persons.
- Support group membership and perceptions of control over health in HIV+ men.
- Encouraging patients to become more physically active: the physician's role.
- Self-efficacy, attendance, and weight loss in obesity treatment.
- The Gln223Arg and Lys656Asn polymorphisms in the human leptin receptor do not associate with traits related to obesity.
- GastroIntestinal symptoms following consumption of olestra or regular triglyceride potato chips: a controlled comparison.
- Relationship of physical activity and television watching with body weight and level of fatness among children: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Ex...
- Update on obesity treatment.
- Body weight and health care among women in the general population.
- Pain in the obese: impact on health-related quality-of-life.
- Association of the Pro12Ala variant in the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma2 gene with obesity in two Caucasian populations.
- Physiological correlates of colonic motility in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
- Olestra Postmarketing Surveillance Study: design and baseline results from the sentinel site.
- Body mass index, smoking, and mortality among older American women.
- Optimism and obesity treatment outcomes.
- Use of preventive health care services by patients with obesity.
- Demographic, dietary and lifestyle factors differentially explain variability in serum carotenoids and fat-soluble vitamins: baseline results from the sentinel site of...
- The distribution of body mass index among individuals with and without schizophrenia.
- Is the prevalence of successful weight loss and maintenance higher in the general community than the research clinic?
- Impact of weight loss on health-related quality of life.
- Prescription medications: a modifiable contributor to obesity.
- Tumor necrosis factor-alpha-238 and -308 polymorphisms do not associated with traits related to obesity and insulin resistance.
- Early adopters of olestra-containing foods: who are they?
- Naltrexone alters subjective and psychomotor responses to alcohol in heavy drinking subjects.
- Do consumers of savory snacks have poor-quality diets?
- Weight-control behaviors among adults and adolescents: associations with dietary intake.
- Olestra consumption does not predict serum concentrations of carotenoids and fat-soluble vitamins in free-living humans: early results from the sentinel site of the ol...
- Behavioral approaches to the problems of obesity.
- Changes in diet, weight, and serum lipid levels associated with olestra consumption.
- Metabolic disharmony and mortality.
- Serum concentrations of retinol, alpha-tocopherol and the carotenoids are influenced by diet, race and obesity in a sample of healthy adolescents.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, cyclooxygenase inhibitors, and the risk of gastroIntestinal complications.
- The pathogens are speaking: are we listening?
- msJAMA: Appearance vs health as motivators for weight loss.
- Body mass index and effects of refeeding on liver tests in drug-dependent adults in a residential research unit.
- Calorie restriction increases cigarette use in adult smokers.
- Pharmacologic treatment of obesity.
- Lack of energy compensation over 4 days when white button mushrooms are substituted for beef.
- Obesity and workplace traumatic injury: does the science support the link?
- Bromocriptine reduces steatosis in obese rodent models.
- A personalised intervention reduced weight regain in overweight and obese adults who had recently lost weight.
- Bromocriptine administration reduces hyperphagia and adiposity and differentially affects dopamine D2 receptor and transporter binding in leptin-receptor-deficient Zuc...
- Low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets led to greater weight loss than a low-fat diet in moderately obese adults.
- Describing patterns of weight changes using principal components analysis: results from the Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) research group.
- A behavioural weight-loss programme was better than an education programme for urinary incontinence in overweight and obese women.
- BMI <22.5 and >25 predicted higher overall mortality in adults.
- Triglyceride/HDL Ratio as a Screening Tool for Predicting Success at Reducing Anti-Diabetic Medications Following Weight Loss.
- Hepatitis as observed in an Army general hospital.
Schools
Dartmouth Medical School
Lenox Hill Hospital
Yale New Haven Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
Conditions Treated
- Anemia
- Esophageal Varices
- Ileus
- Intestinal Obstruction
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Doctors Specialties
- Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top Doctors
- Who's Who in America listee
- Physician Nutrition Specialist Award
- John A. Hartford Scholar in Geriatric Medicine
- Fellow
- National Merit Scholarship Finalist
- Dr. Jonas E. Salk Scholarship
- Certificate of Recognition
- Young Investigator Award
Education
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Yale-New Haven Hospital -
Lenox Hill Hospital -
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
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