Tom D. Spies Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism, Northwestern University Medical School

Endocrinology

Boyd Metzger is an expert in the field of Endocrinology. He researched medicine at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine is ranked 29 in research and 16 in primary care medicine Doctor Boyd E. Metzger, MD is a published doctor. He has 101 papers published. The most current publication "The Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study: beta-hydroxybutyrate levels in type 1 diabetic pregnancy compared with normal pregnancy. NICHD-Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study..."

Publications

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• The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study.
• Identification of HKDC1 and BACE2 as Genes Influencing Glycemic Traits During Pregnancy Through Genome-Wide Association Studies.
• Metabolomics Reveals Broad-Scale Metabolic Perturbations in Hyperglycemic Mothers during Pregnancy.
• Maternal Testosterone Levels are Associated with C-Peptide Levels in the Mexican American Subset of the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Study Cohort.
• Classification of diabetes in pregnancy: time to reassess the alphabet.
• The cost-effectiveness of gestational diabetes screening including prevention of type 2 diabetes: application of a new model in India and Israel.
• Excessive weight gain in women with a normal pre-pregnancy BMI is associated with increased neonatal adiposity.
• Maternal Obesity and Vitamin D Sufficiency Are Associated with Cord Blood Vitamin D Insufficiency.
• The chromosome 3q25 locus associated with fetal adiposity is not associated with childhood adiposity.
• Plasma C-peptide and diagnosis of factitious hyperinsulinism. Study of an insulin-dependent diabetic patient with "spontaneous" hypoglycemia.
• Glutamine-dependent carbamyl phosphate synthetase in placenta and fetal structures of the rat.
• Glutamine-dependent carbamyl phosphate synthetase during fetal and neonatal life in the rat.
• Verification of early pregnancy tests in a multicenter trial.
• Childhood obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease: a review of the science.
• Cutaneous allergy to human (recombinant DNA) insulin.
• Electrophoretic method for characterizing thyroid function.
• Inquiries into the pathogenesis of gestational diabetes.
• The effects of acute uremia on plasma glucose, insulin and growth hormone in the rat.
• Gynecomastia, prolactin, and other peptide hormones in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis.
• Effects of acute uremia on metabolic fuels and hormones in the rat.
• "Accelerated starvation" and the skipped breakfast in late normal pregnancy.
• Serial ultrasonography to assess evolving fetal macrosomia. Studies in 23 pregnant diabetic women.
• Metabolic features of Johannesburg Bantu with myocardial infarction.
• Specificity of immunoglobulin E and immunoglobulin G against human (recombinant DNA) insulin in human insulin allergy and resistance.
• Fuel-mediated teratogenesis. Use of D-mannose to modify organogenesis in the rat embryo in vivo.
• Cerebrovascular disorders in patients with diabetes mellitus.
• "Accelerated starvation" and mechanisms for the conservation of maternal nitrogen during pregnancy.
• Drug ingestion during pregnancy: infrequent exposure in a contemporary United States sample. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Diabetes in Early...
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy. XIV. Relationships between circulating glucagon, insulin, glucose and amino acids in response to a "mixed meal" in late pregnancy.
• Prospective study showing that antisperm antibodies are not associated with pregnancy losses.
• Transplacental arteriovenous gradients for glucose, insulin, glucagon and placental lactogen during normoglycaemia in human pregnancy at term.
• Hepatic insulin and glucagon receptors in pregnancy: their role in the enhanced catabolism during fasting.
• Interrelations of glucose, insulin and glucagon after overnight fast and in response to oral glucose during late pregnancy.
• Pregnancy as a tissue culture experience: the critical implications of maternal metabolism for fetal development.
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy. X. Metabolic disposition of alanine by the perfused liver of the fasting pregnant rat.
• Effects of diabetes mellitus on endocrinologic and metabolic adaptations of gestation.
• Relationships between glucose, insulin and glucagon during fasting in late gestation in the rat.
• Changes in diabetic retinopathy during pregnancy. Correlations with regulation of hyperglycemia.
• Biphasic changes in hemoglobin A1c concentrations during normal human pregnancy.
• Gestational diabetes: problems in classification and implications for long-range prognosis.
• The hypothermia of hypoglycemia. Studies with 2-deoxy-D-glucose in normal human subjects and mice.
• The size of subcortical ischemic infarction in patients with and without diabetes mellitus.
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy. XII. The effect of oral glucose on plasma concentrations of human placental lactogen and chorionic gonadotropin during late pregn...
• Diabetes during pregnancy.
• Caloric restriction in gestational diabetes mellitus: when and how much?
• Moderate caffeine use and the risk of spontaneous abortion and intrauterine growth retardation.
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy XVI: longitudinal estimates of the effects of pregnancy on D-(63H) glucose and D-(6-14C) glucose turnovers during fasting in the rat.
• The legacy of Norbert Freinkel: maternal metabolism and its impact on the offspring, from embryo to adult.
• Oral glucose tolerance curve and hypoglycemias in the fed state.
• Placental lipid and glycogen content in human and experimental diabetes mellitus.
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy: XIII. Relationships between plasma insulin and proinsulin during late pregnancy in normal and diabetic subjects.
• Phosphoinositide metabolism in the developing conceptus. Effects of hyperglycemia and scyllo-inositol in rat embryo culture.
• Influences of the intrauterine metabolic environment on adult disease: what may we infer from size at birth?
• Glucose and scyllo-inositol impair phosphoinositide hydrolysis in the 10.5-day cultured rat conceptus: a role in dysmorphogenesis?
• Declining insulin requirement in the late first trimester of diabetic pregnancy.
• Accelerated starvation in pregnancy: implications for dietary treatment of obesity and gestational diabetes mellitus.
• 1990 overview of GDM. Accomplishments of the last decade--challenges for the future.
• Early sonographic evaluation for fetal growth delay and congenital malformations in pregnancies complicated by insulin-requiring diabetes. National Institute of Child ...
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy. XVII. Diurnal profiles of plasma glucose, insulin, free fatty acids, triglycerides, cholesterol, and individual amino acids in la...
• Lack of relation of increased malformation rates in infants of diabetic mothers to glycemic control during organogenesis.
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy. IX. Plasma levels of gluconeogenic fuels during fasting in the rat.
• Incidence of spontaneous abortion among normal women and insulin-dependent diabetic women whose pregnancies were identified within 21 days of conception.
• Correlations between antepartum maternal metabolism and child intelligence.
• Correlations between antepartum maternal metabolism and newborn behavior.
• Relationships between glucose and mannose during late gestation in normal pregnancy and pregnancy complicated by diabetes mellitus: concurrent concentrations in matern...
• Effects of gestational diabetes on diurnal profiles of plasma glucose, lipids, and individual amino acids.
• Infectious processes: an infrequent cause of first trimester spontaneous abortions.
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy. XI. Response of plasma glucagon to overnight fast and oral glucose during normal pregnancy and in gestational diabetes.
• Physiological reduction in fasting plasma glucose concentration in the first trimester of normal pregnancy: the diabetes in early pregnancy study.
• The Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study: beta-hydroxybutyrate levels in type 1 diabetic pregnancy compared with normal pregnancy. NICHD-Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study...
• Maternal postprandial glucose levels and infant birth weight: the Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development--Diab...
• Gestational diabetes mellitus. Correlations between the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the mother and abnormal glucose tolerance during the first year pos...
• The medical management of diabetes in pregnancy.
• Biphasic effects of maternal metabolism on fetal growth. Quintessential expression of fuel-mediated teratogenesis.
• Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy. XV. Plasma C-peptide during intravenous glucose tolerance in neonates from normal and insulin-treated diabetic mothers.
• Gestational diabetes mellitus: a syndrome with phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity.
• Amniotic fluid insulin concentration as a predictor of obesity.
• Summary and recommendations of the Third International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Early malnutrition and child neurobehavioral development: insights from the study of children of diabetic mothers.
• Resting heart rate in middle age and diabetes development in older age.
• Behavioral adjustment in children of diabetic mothers.
• The role of the polycystic ovary syndrome susceptibility locus D19S884 allele 8 in maternal glycemia and fetal size.
• Metabolic control and progression of retinopathy. The Diabetes in Early Pregnancy Study. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Diabetes in Early Pre...
• Effects of gestational diabetes on perinatal morbidity reassessed. Report of the International Workshop on Adverse Perinatal Outcomes of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus,...
• Fetal hyperinsulinism in offspring of diabetic mothers. Association with the subsequent development of childhood obesity.
• Care of the pregnant woman with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
• Infants of diabetic mothers with accelerated fetal growth by ultrasonography: are they all alike?
• The influence of demographic and phenotypic heterogeneity on the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus.
• The effect of gestational age on amniotic fluid glucose in pregnancy complicated by diabetes mellitus.
• Effect of pregnancy on renal function in patients with moderate-to-severe diabetic renal insufficiency.
• Perinatal islet function in gestational diabetes: assessment by cord plasma C-peptide and amniotic fluid insulin.
• Metabolic response to meal eating and extended overnight fast in twin gestation.
• Perinatal complications and cognitive development in 2- to 5-year-old children of diabetic mothers.
• Amniotic fluid prolactin in the third trimester of pregnancies complicated by gestational or pregestational diabetes mellitus.
• Gestational diabetes mellitus. Heterogeneity of maternal age, weight, insulin secretion, HLA antigens, and islet cell antibodies and the impact of maternal metabolism ...
• Increased macrosomia and perinatal morbidity independent of maternal obesity and advanced age in Korean women with GDM.
• Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus in Korea.
• Short stature in Korean women: a contribution to the multifactorial predisposition to gestational diabetes mellitus.
• Accelerated starvation in late pregnancy: a comparison between obese women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus.
• Correlations between the intrauterine metabolic environment and blood pressure in adolescent offspring of diabetic mothers.

Schools

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• Roy J Lucille a Carver College Of Medicine At University Of Iowa

• Michael Reese Hospital and Med Center

• Wash University

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine
• Endocrinology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Hospital

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• Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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