Clinical Professor
Pediatric Endocrinology
Piers R. Blackett, MB BCH
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Piers R. Blackett, MB BCH is an expert in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. He received awards:"Medical Director, Children's Fitness Clinic", "Staff Scientist", "Fellow of the National Lipid Association (FNLA)" and "Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)". Piers Blackett is a published MD as well. He has 62 publications published. The latest was: Lipoprotein changes in relation to body mass index in Native American adolescents.
Publications
- A Case of 36-Year-Old Woman With Recurrent Hypoglycemia Due to Insulinoma With Cytokeratin-19 Expression: A Marker of Poor Prognosis.
- Pediatric dyslipidemia: recommendations for clinical management.
- Lipoprotein abnormalities in compound heterozygous lipoprotein lipase deficiency after treatment with a low-fat diet and orlistat.
- Genetic determinants of cardiometabolic risk: A proposed model for phenotype association and interaction.
- Apolipoproteins A-I, B, and C-III in young adult Cherokee with metabolic syndrome with or without type 2 diabetes.
- Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes.
- Impact of type 1 diabetes and body weight status on cardiovascular risk factors in adolescent children.
- Partial defect in the cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme P450scc (CYP11A1) resembling nonclassic congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia.
- Ethnic differences in fasting glucose, insulin resistance and lipid profiles in obese adolescents.
- Ring chromosome 9 [r(9)(p24q34)]: a report of two cases.
- Body mass index and high-density lipoproteins in Cherokee Indian children and adolescents.
- Ring chromosome 4 in a patient with early onset type 2 diabetes, deafness, and developmental delay.
- ApoC-III bound to apoB-containing lipoproteins increase with insulin resistance in Cherokee Indian youth.
- Type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in American Indians aged 5-40 years: the Cherokee diabetes study.
- Childhood obesity: epidemiology, comorbid conditions, psychological ramifications, and clinical recommendations.
- Proteinuric nephropathy in acquired and congenital generalized lipodystrophy: baseline characteristics and course during recombinant leptin therapy.
- Expanding metabolic screening of newborns: can the health care industry do better than public health?
- Fatal malignant hyperthermia-like syndrome with rhabdomyolysis complicating the presentation of diabetes mellitus in adolescent males.
- Apolipoprotein C-III bound to apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins in obese girls.
- C-terminal domain of apolipoprotein CII as both activator and competitive inhibitor of lipoprotein lipase.
- Characterization of the metabolic syndrome by apolipoproteins in the Oklahoma Cherokee.
- Prevention and early detection of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.
- Acanthosis Nigricans, insulin resistance (HOMA) and dyslipidemia among Native American children.
- Correlation between lipoprotein(a) and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Cherokee Indians: the Cherokee Diabetes Study.
- Composition of plasma ApoA-I-containing lipoprotein particles in children and adults.
- Plasma apolipoprotein C-III levels in children with type I diabetes.
- Body mass index (BMI) in Turner Syndrome before and during growth hormone (GH) therapy.
- Effect of newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Lipoprotein changes in relation to body mass index in Native American adolescents.
- FH Tulsa-1 and -2: two unique alleles for familial hypercholesterolemia presenting in an affected two-year-old African-American male.
- Hyperlipidemia in children.
- Thyroxine and triiodothyronine autoantibodies in Hashimoto''s thyroiditis with severe hormone-resistant Hypothyroidism.
- Lipids and apolipoproteins in growth hormone-deficient children during treatment.
- Insulin pump treatment for recurrent ketoacidosis in adolescence.
- A pituitary abscess simulating an intrasellar tumor.
- Comparison of lipids and apolipoproteins in amniotic fluid, neonatal urine, and cord serum.
- Growth hormone in the regulation of Hyperlipidemia.
- Studies on serum apolipoproteins and lipids in amniotic fluid and neonatal urine.
- Secondary metabolic changes in von Gierke's disease (Type I glycogen storage disease).
- Familial central diabetes insipidus: vasopressin and nicotine stimulated neurophysin deficiency with subnormal oxytocin and estrogen stimulated neurophysin.
- Hyperlipidemia in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Studies of lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins in Menkes' disease.
- Desmopressin response of enuretic children. Effects of age and frequency of enuresis.
- 1-Deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin and urine cyclic adenosine monophosphate excretion in diabetes insipidus.
- Intrauterine infection with herpes simplex virus. Resultant congenital malformations.
- Increased levels of HDL-cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-I after intensified insulin therapy for diabetes.
- Plasma lipids and apolipoproteins in a 13-year-old boy with diabetic ketoacidosis and extreme Hyperlipidemia.
- Dominantly inherited childhood gigantism resembling Sotos' syndrome.
- Diabetic ketoacidosis at the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma: a review on presentation and management.
- Use of plasma lipoprotein lipase activity without heparin injection for detection of homozygous and heterozygous lipoprotein lipase deficiency.
- Hazards of overconcentrated milk formula. Hyperosmolality, disseminated intravascular coagulation and gangrene.
- Transient hypertension. Associated with methadone intoxication.
- The diagnosis and management of diabetes insipidus in children.
- Management of diabetes insipidus with DDAVP.
- Neonatal thyrotoxicosis following maternal Hypothyroidism.
- Combined oral L-dopa and propranolol for growth hormone provocation.
- Two new unrelated cases of hereditary 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D-resistant rickets with alopecia resulting from the same novel nonsense mutation in the vitamin D receptor...
- Vascular health in children and adolescents: effects of obesity and diabetes.
- Prolongation of growth by treatment of 11-hydroxylase deficiency with depot-leuprolide, growth hormone, and hydrocortisone.
- Association of acanthosis nigricans with hyperinsulinemia compared with other selected risk factors for type 2 diabetes in Cherokee Indians: the Cherokee Diabetes Study.
- Genome-wide association study of 25(OH) Vitamin D concentrations in Punjabi Sikhs: Results of the Asian Indian diabetic heart study.
Schools
University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences
Groote Schuur Hospital
Roosevelt Hospital
Hospital Sick Chldn
Conditions Treated
- Hyperlipidemia
- Hypothyroidism
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Endocrinology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Medical Director, Children's Fitness Clinic
- Staff Scientist
- Fellow of the National Lipid Association (FNLA)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)
Education
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St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center -
University of Cape Town Faculty of Medicine
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