Dr. Walter E. Connor MD
Family Practitioner
555 E Cheves St Florence SC, 29506Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Walter Connor is a family practitioner practicing in Florence, SC. Dr. Connor specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Connor possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Univ of Sc Sch of Med, Columbia Sc 1984
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alpha-linolenic acid in health and disease.
- Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon.
- Fish oil in hypertriglyceridemia: safety and recommendations.
- Higher total homocysteine concentrations and lower folate concentrations in premenopausal black women than in premenopausal white women.
- Diet-heart research in the first part of the 20th century.
- Harbingers of coronary heart disease: dietary saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. Is chocolate benign because of its stearic acid content?
- Cheek cell phospholipids in human infants: a marker of docosahexaenoic and arachidonic acids in the diet, plasma, and red blood cells.
- Importance of n-3 fatty acids in health and disease.
- Fetal demise with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome confirmed by tissue sterol analysis and the absence of measurable 7-dehydrocholesterol Delta(7)-reductase activity in chorionic villi.
- Plasma lipid and lipoprotein responsiveness to dietary fat and cholesterol in premenopausal African American and white women.
- Cholesterol supplementation with egg yolk increases plasma cholesterol and decreases plasma 7-dehydrocholesterol in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.
- Sterol balance in the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. Reduction in whole body cholesterol synthesis and normal bile acid production.
- Reduction of pain episodes and prothrombotic activity in sickle cell disease by dietary n-3 fatty acids.
- Fecal steroids of the coprolite of a Greenland Eskimo mummy, AD 1475: a clue to dietary sterol intake.
- Growth and development in preterm infants fed long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids: a prospective, randomized controlled trial.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Colon Polyps
- Diverticulosis
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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805 PAMPLICO HWY BOX 100550 FLORENCE SC 29505