Deborah Mitsuko Kado, MD, MS
Orthopedist
9350 Campus Point Drive La Jolla CA, 92037About
Dr. Deborah Kado is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Kado specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Kado tends to bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Orthopaedic surgeons can specialize in certain areas like the hand, spine, hip, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow or the knee.
Education and Training
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY Medical Degree
Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA Other Degree
UC Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA Other Degree
UC San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA Other Degree
UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA Other Degree
Bone Health Specialist Medical Degree
Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Medical Degree
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Geriatric Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rapid resting heart rate: a simple and powerful predictor of osteoporotic fractures and mortality in older women.
- Homocysteine levels and decline in physical function: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging.
- A cure for all ills.
- Hyperkyphotic posture and risk of future osteoporotic fractures: the Rancho Bernardo study.
- Sex steroid hormone gene polymorphisms and depressive symptoms in women at midlife.
- Narrative review: hyperkyphosis in older persons.
- The rehabilitation of hyperkyphotic posture in the elderly.
- Age-related hyperkyphosis, independent of spinal osteoporosis, is associated with impaired mobility in older community-dwelling women.
- Increasing kyphosis predicts worsening mobility in older community-dwelling women: a prospective cohort study.
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and its relation to back pain among
- Association of spinal muscle composition and prevalence of hyperkyphosis in healthy community-dwelling older men and women.
- Active Referral Intervention following Fragility Fractures Leads to Enhanced Osteoporosis Follow-Up Care.
- Kyphosis and decline in physical function over 15 years in older community-dwelling women: the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures.
- Kyphosis and paraspinal muscle composition in older men: a cross-sectional study for the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) research group.
- Physical function in older men with hyperkyphosis.
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