Dr. Marcelo Lima de gusmao Correia MD, MSC, PHD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
200 Hawkins Dr Graduate Medical Edu Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Marcelo Correia practices Endocrinology in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Correia specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Correia examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Kazan Federal University Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology 1991
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Faculdade de CiÍncias MÈdicas
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Contrasting blood pressure effects of obesity in leptin-deficient ob/ob mice and agouti yellow obese mice.
- Does leptin cause functional peripheral sympatholysis?
- The effects of nitric oxide synthase inhibitors on the sedative effect of clonidine.
- The role of bradykinin, AT2 and angiotensin 1-7 receptors in the EDRF-dependent vasodilator effect of angiotensin II on the isolated mesenteric vascular bed of the rat.
- Leptin, obesity and cardiovascular disease.
- Role of leptin in the cardiovascular and endocrine complications of metabolic syndrome.
- Lessons from Leptin's molecular biology: Potential therapeutic actions of recombinant leptin and leptin-related compounds.
- Metabolic syndrome and blood pressure: the salty connection.
- Dissociation between sympathetic nerve traffic and sympathetically mediated vascular tone in normotensive human obesity.
- Maternal high-fat diet programs for metabolic disturbances in offspring despite leptin sensitivity.
- Elderly hypertensives show decreased cognitive performance compared with elderly normotensives.
- Spectral analyses of systolic blood pressure and heart rate variability and their association with cognitive performance in elderly hypertensive subjects.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hypothyroidism
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