Dr. William I Sivitz MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. William Sivitz practices Endocrinology in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Sivitz specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Sivitz examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
MCP HAHNEMANN UNIV (FORMERLY ALLEGHENY UNIV) 1972
HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Heritability of plasma leptin levels: a twin study.
- Pubertal adolescent male-female differences in insulin sensitivity and glucose effectiveness determined by the one compartment minimal model.
- Effects of adenoviral overexpression of uncoupling protein-2 and -3 on mitochondrial respiration in insulinoma cells.
- Leptin acts in the central nervous system to produce dose-dependent changes in arterial pressure.
- Lipotoxicity and glucotoxicity in type 2 diabetes. Effects on development and
- Effect of acute and antecedent hypoglycemia on sympathetic neural activity and catecholamine responsiveness in normal rats.
- Leptin interacts with heart rate but not sympathetic nerve traffic in healthy male subjects.
- Role of corticotrophin-releasing factor in effects of leptin on sympathetic nerve activity and arterial pressure.
- Does leptin stimulate nitric oxide to oppose the effects of sympathetic activation?
- UCP2-dependent proton leak in isolated mammalian mitochondria.
- Uncoupling metabolism and coupling leptin to cardiovascular disease.
- Pretranslational regulation of two cardiac glucose transporters in rats exposed to hypobaric hypoxia.
- Time-dependent regulation of rat adipose tissue glucose transporter (GLUT4) mRNA and protein by insulin in streptozocin-diabetic and normal rats.
- Leptin administration to normal rats does not alter catecholamine responsiveness to insulin-induced hypoglycemia.
- Uncoupling proteins prevent glucose-induced neuronal oxidative stress and programmed cell death.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
Fellowships
- Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Bay State Medical Center, Springfield, MA
- Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Michigan Affiliated Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI
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