Dr. Dr. Josephine Kasa-Vubu, MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
1500 East Medical Center Dr 1st Floor Taubman Ct Ann Arbor MI, 48109About
Dr. Josephine Kasa-Vubu is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Kasa-Vubu 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
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculteit Der Geneeskunde 1985
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Differences in endocrine function with varying fitness capacity in postpubertal females across the weight spectrum.
- Twenty-four hour growth hormone and leptin secretion in active postpubertal adolescent girls: impact of fitness, fatness, and age at menarche.
- Prevalence of overweight and obesity in a U.S. pediatric surgical population.
- Childhood body mass index and perioperative complications.
- Relationships among body mass index, parental perceptions, birthweight and parental weight after referral to a weight clinic.
- Ghrelin concentrations reflect body mass index rather than feeding status in obese girls.
- Metformin as a weight-loss tool in "at-risk" obese adolescents: a magic bullet?
- Impact of fatness, insulin, and gynecological age on luteinizing hormone secretory dynamics in adolescent females.
- Elevated testosterone and hypergonadotropism in active adolescents of normal
- Management quandary. Diagnostic quandary: premature ovarian failure and galactosemia variants in adolescent girls with delayed puberty.
- Effect of oral phytoestrogen on androgenicity and insulin sensitivity in postmenopausal women.
- Effects of denosumab treatment and discontinuation on human growth plates.
- Effects of hypophysectomy on galaninergic neurons in the rat hypothalamus.
- Pituitary-dependent hormonal regulation of galaninergic neurons in the rat hypothalamus.
- Isolation of a new mouse 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase isoform, 3beta-HSD VI, expressed during early pregnancy.
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