Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College-Thos Jefferson Univ

Pediatrics

Dr. Sandra G. Hassink works in the field of Pediatrics. He researched medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Doctor Sandra G. Hassink, MD is a published doctor and has 34 publications published. The lastest was: 'Effect of obesity on estradiol level, and its relationship to leptin, bone maturation, and bone mineral density in children.'

Publications

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• Audio-Video Recording of Health Care Encounters for Pediatric Chronic Conditions: Observational Reactivity and its Correlates.
• Response monitoring and cognitive control in childhood obesity.
• Building capacity for childhood obesity prevention and treatment in the medical community: call to action.
• Introduction: Pediatric obesity and the role of children's hospitals.
• Implications for pediatricians of the Shaping America's Youth findings.
• Evidence for effective obesity treatment: pediatricians on the right track!
• Leptin enhances lung maturity in the fetal rat.
• Association of age and sex with cardiovascular risk factors and insulin sensitivity in overweight children and adolescents.
• Reproductive hormone levels in infants with cryptorchidism during postnatal activation of the pituitary-testicular axis.
• Childhood obesity: evaluation, treatment, and relationship to disease.
• Weighing risk: the expert committee''s recommendations in practice.
• Leptin and estradiol as related to change in pubertal status and body weight.
• Dysmetabolic syndrome: multiple risk factors for premature adult disease in an adolescent girl.
• Adenotonsillectomy in the morbidly obese child.
• Problems in childhood obesity.
• Severe obesity associated with cardiovascular deconditioning, high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, diabetes mellitus/hyperinsulinemia, and respiratory compr...
• Recognition of noncardiac comorbidities and treatment of overweight children and adolescents.
• Effect of obesity and high blood pressure on plasma lipid levels in children and adolescents.
• How a primary care quality improvement initiative is implementing the expert recommendations on childhood obesity.
• Perspectives on obesity programs at children's hospitals: insights from senior program administrators.
• Recommendations for prevention of childhood obesity.
• RBP4: from retinol transporter to biomarker?
• Associations among slipped capital femoral epiphysis, tibia vara, and type 2 juvenile diabetes.
• Transposition of the great arteries: possible risk factor for Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis.
• Neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease.
• Serum leptin in children with obesity: relationship to gender and development.
• Placental leptin: an important new growth factor in intrauterine and neonatal development?
• Leptin expression in human mammary epithelial cells and breast milk.
• Effect of obesity on estradiol level, and its relationship to leptin, bone maturation, and bone mineral density in children.
• Immaturity or starvation? Longitudinal study of leptin levels in premature infants.
• Hyperinsulinemia: incidence and risk in an obese pediatric population.
• The relationship between self-esteem and depression in obese children.
• Obesity in children: a risk for depression.

Schools

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• Vanderbilt University

• St Christophers

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatrics

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Select
• Personal Choice PPO
• Blue Card PPO
• Commercial Insurance Company
• Coventry Health America PPO
• Southern Health PPO
• Coventry Health Care of Delaware PPO
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• HealthPartners
• Choice Care PPO
• Keystone Health Plan East HMO
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• QualCare HMO
• QualCare PPO
• United Healthcare

Education

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• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

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