Dr. William C Knowler M.D.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
1550 E Indian School Rd Phoenix AZ, 85014About
William Knowler is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Phoenix, AZ. Knowler specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Knowler participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1973
Harvard Medical School 1973
Board Certification
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- HDL cholesterol subfractions and risk of developing type 2 diabetes among Pima Indians.
- Birth weight, type 2 diabetes, and insulin resistance in Pima Indian children and young adults.
- Absence of glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies in Pima Indian children with diabetes mellitus.
- Evaluation of simple indices of insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion for use in epidemiologic studies.
- Individual estimates of European genetic admixture associated with lower body-mass index, plasma glucose, and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Pima Indians.
- Effect of diabetes in pregnancy on offspring: follow-up research in the Pima Indians.
- An autosomal genomic scan for loci linked to plasma leptin concentration in Pima Indians.
- Type 2 diabetes and low birth weight: the role of paternal inheritance in the association of low birth weight and diabetes.
- The 1997 American Diabetes Association and 1999 World Health Organization criteria for hyperglycemia in the diagnosis and prediction of diabetes.
- Plasma glucose and prediction of microvascular disease and mortality: evaluation of 1997 American Diabetes Association and 1999 World Health Organization criteria for diagnosis of diabetes.
- Secular trends in birth weight, BMI, and diabetes in the offspring of diabetic mothers.
- Association of dopamine D2 receptor polymorphisms Ser311Cys and TaqIA with obesity or type 2 diabetes mellitus in Pima Indians.
- Intrauterine exposure to diabetes conveys risks for type 2 diabetes and obesity: a study of discordant sibships.
- Assessment of parent-of-origin effects in linkage analysis of quantitative traits.
- Genealogy construction in a historically isolated population: application to genetic studies of rheumatoid arthritis in the Pima Indian.
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