Dr. Piers R Blackett MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
1200 N Phillips Ave Suite 4500 Oklahoma City OK, 73104About
Dr. Piers Blackett is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Blackett specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Education and Training
Univ Of Cape Town- Fac Of Med- Cape Town- So Africa 1967
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Transient hypertension. Associated with methadone intoxication.
- Body mass index (BMI) in Turner Syndrome before and during growth hormone (GH) therapy.
- Hazards of overconcentrated milk formula. Hyperosmolality, disseminated intravascular coagulation and gangrene.
- Apolipoprotein C-III bound to apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins in obese girls.
- Type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in American Indians aged 5-40 years: the Cherokee diabetes study.
- ApoC-III bound to apoB-containing lipoproteins increase with insulin resistance in Cherokee Indian youth.
- Body mass index and high-density lipoproteins in Cherokee Indian children and adolescents.
- Ethnic differences in fasting glucose, insulin resistance and lipid profiles in obese adolescents.
- Prolongation of growth by treatment of 11-hydroxylase deficiency with depot-leuprolide, growth hormone, and hydrocortisone.
- Two new unrelated cases of hereditary 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D-resistant rickets with alopecia resulting from the same novel nonsense mutation in the vitamin D receptor gene.
- Partial defect in the cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme P450scc (CYP11A1) resembling nonclassic congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia.
- Diabetic ketoacidosis at the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma: a review on presentation and management.
- Impact of type 1 diabetes and body weight status on cardiovascular risk factors in adolescent children.
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