Associate Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Joan C. Lo, MD
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Joan works in the field of Internal Medicine. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. Joan has written publications. He has 85 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Occult virilizing ovarian tumours in postmenopausal women: problems in evaluation with reference to a case.'
Publications
- Change in Weight Status and Development of Hypertension.
- Retinopathy and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease (from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study).
- Gestational Thyrotoxicosis, AntiThyroid Drug Use and Neonatal Outcomes within an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System.
- Comparing US paediatric and adult weight classification at the transition from late teenage to young adulthood.
- Lipid screening in children and adolescents in community practice: 2007 to 2010.
- Lactation intensity and fasting plasma lipids, lipoproteins, non-esterified free fatty acids, leptin and adiponectin in postpartum women with recent gestational diabet...
- Racial/ethnic differences in hip and diaphyseal femur fractures.
- Retinopathy and Progression of CKD: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study.
- Increasing Use of Vitamin D Supplementation in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study.
- Patterns of care and persistence after incident elevated blood pressure.
- Prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity in children aged 3-5 years.
- Ethnic variability in bone geometry as assessed by hip structure analysis: findings from the hip strength across the menopausal transition study.
- Prehypertension and hypertension in community-based pediatric practice.
- Clinical efficacy and effects of xylitol wipes on bacterial virulence.
- Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in patients with oral bisphosphonate exposure: clinical course and outcomes.
- Bone resorption and fracture across the menopausal transition: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
- Influence of breastfeeding during the postpartum oral glucose tolerance test on plasma glucose and insulin.
- Prevalence of cervical insufficiency in Polycystic ovarian syndrome.
- Clinical correlates of atypical femoral fracture.
- Study of Women, Infant Feeding, and Type 2 diabetes mellitus after GDM pregnancy (SWIFT), a prospective cohort study: methodology and design.
- Antipsychotic medication use among children and risk of diabetes mellitus.
- Lactation intensity and postpartum maternal glucose tolerance and insulin resistance in women with recent GDM: the SWIFT cohort.
- Methods for Assessing Fracture Risk Prediction Models: Experience With FRAX in a Large Integrated Health Care Delivery System.
- Bone and the perimenopause.
- Oral health considerations in older women receiving oral bisphosphonate therapy.
- Association of vitamin D insufficiency with carotid intima-media thickness in HIV-infected persons.
- Fracture risk tool validation in an integrated healthcare delivery system.
- Radiographic findings in bisphosphonate-treated patients with stage 0 disease in the absence of bone exposure.
- Association of adolescent obesity and lifetime nulliparity--the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN).
- Characteristics of implant failures in patients with a history of oral bisphosphonate therapy.
- Intravenous bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw: bone scintigraphy as an early indicator.
- Bone mineral density changes during the menopause transition in a multiethnic cohort of women.
- Duration of lactation is associated with lower prevalence of the metabolic Syndrome in midlife--SWAN, the study of women's health across the nation.
- GFR, body mass index, and low high-density lipoprotein concentration in adults with and without CKD.
- Effect of genetic variation in the organic cation transporter 1 (OCT1) on metformin action.
- Plasma leptin levels and coronary artery calcification in older adults.
- Value of the sagittal abdominal diameter in coronary heart disease risk assessment: cohort study in a large, multiethnic population.
- Statin therapy and risks for death and hospitalization in chronic heart failure.
- Single-dose lopinavir-ritonavir acutely inhibits insulin-mediated glucose disposal in healthy volunteers.
- The association of genetic polymorphisms in sex hormone biosynthesis and action with insulin sensitivity and diabetes mellitus in women at midlife.
- Increased prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus among women with diagnosed Polycystic ovary syndrome: a population-based study.
- Epidemiology and adverse cardiovascular risk profile of diagnosed Polycystic ovary syndrome.
- The relationship between nucleoside analogue treatment duration, insulin resistance, and fasting arterialized lactate level in patients with HIV infection.
- Metabolic Syndrome and the risk for chronic kidney disease among nondiabetic adults.
- Increased prevalence of subclinical and clinical hypoThyroidism in persons with chronic kidney disease.
- HyperThyroidism and a negative urine hCG test in molar pregnancy.
- The effects of low-dose growth hormone in HIV-infected men with fat accumulation: a pilot study.
- HIV protease inhibitors increase adiponectin levels in HIV-negative men.
- Progression of atherosclerosis as assessed by carotid intima-media thickness in patients with HIV infection.
- Effects of recombinant human growth hormone on hepatic lipid and carbohydrate metabolism in HIV-infected patients with fat accumulation.
- Physical performance and frailty in chronic kidney disease.
- Occult virilizing Ovarian tumours in postmenopausal women: problems in evaluation with reference to a case.
- Modified reverse sural artery flap.
- Pregnancy outcomes in women with congenital virilizing adrenal hyperplasia.
- The regulation of T cell homeostasis and autoimmunity by T cell-derived LIGHT.
- Familial papillary Thyroid cancer: a case report.
- Body shape changes in HIV-infected patients.
- Riedel''s Thyroiditis presenting with hypoThyroidism and hypoparaThyroidism: dramatic response to glucocorticoid and thyroxine therapy.
- Fanconi's Syndrome and tubulointerstitial nephritis in association with L-lysine ingestion.
- Persistence with weekly alendronate therapy among postmenopausal women.
- The impact of subtrochanteric fracture criteria on hip fracture classification.
- Reproductive function in human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Normal female infants born of mothers with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- "Buffalo hump" in men with HIV-1 infection.
- Cesarean births in Taiwan.
- Altered fat distribution in HIV-positive men on nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor therapy.
- Hyperlipidemia and insulin resistance are induced by protease inhibitors independent of changes in body composition in patients with HIV infection.
- The effects of recombinant human growth hormone on body composition and glucose metabolism in HIV-infected patients with fat accumulation.
- Metabolic effects of indinavir in healthy HIV-seronegative men.
- Patients'' attitudes vs. physicians'' determination: implications for cesarean sections.
- Increased thymic mass and circulating naive CD4 T cells in HIV-1-infected adults treated with growth hormone.
- The impact of hospices on health care expenditures--the case of Taiwan.
- Indinavir acutely inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose disposal in humans: a randomized, placebo-controlled study.
- The metabolic effects of lopinavir/ritonavir in HIV-negative men.
- Indinavir increases glucose production in healthy HIV-negative men.
- Epidemiology of non-dialysis-requiring chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease.
- The metabolic Syndrome and chronic kidney disease.
- Cavernous and inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the evaluation of ACTH-dependent Cushing''s Syndrome.
- Comparative analysis of neonatal morbidity for vaginal and caesarean section deliveries using hospital charge.
- Effects of ritonavir and amprenavir on insulin sensitivity in healthy volunteers.
- Financial incentives do not always work: an example of cesarean sections in Taiwan.
- Prevalence of osteonecrosis of the jaw in patients with oral bisphosphonate exposure.
- Prevalence of ocular fundus pathology in patients with chronic kidney disease.
- Obesity Severity, Dietary Behaviors, and Lifestyle Risks Vary by Race/Ethnicity and Age in a Northern California Cohort of Children with Obesity.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women39s Hospital
Conditions Treated
- Goiter
- HyperparaThyroidism
- Osteopenia
- Osteoporosis
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Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicare MCR
Education
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UCSF -
Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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UCSF Medical Center
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