Dr. Arnold Harvey Slyper MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
400 N 17th St Allentown PA, 18104Rating
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Dr. Arnold Slyper is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Allentown, PA. Dr. Slyper 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
University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine,Cambridge, United Kingdom MD
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A fresh look at the atherogenic remnant hypothesis.
- Autosomal dominant pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ib is associated with a heterozygous microdeletion that likely disrupts a putative imprinting control element of GNAS.
- Clinical review 168: What vascular ultrasound testing has revealed about pediatric atherogenesis, and a potential clinical role for ultrasound in pediatric risk assessment.
- Effective methimazole dose for childhood Graves' disease and use of free triiodothyronine combined with concurrent thyroid-stimulating hormone level to identify mild hyperthyroidism and delayed pituitary recovery.
- The pubertal timing controversy in the USA, and a review of possible causative factors for the advance in timing of onset of puberty.
- A clinically euthyroid child with a large goiter due to a thyroglobulin gene defect: clinical features and genetic studies.
- New directions in the prevention of pediatric atherogenesis and obesity.
- Increased hunger and speed of eating in obese children and adolescents.
- Early atherogenesis and visceral fat in obese adolescents.
- Acanthosis nigricans, vitamin D, and insulin resistance in obese children and adolescents.
- Fatty liver disease, glucose tolerance and insulin resistance in obese adolescents.
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