
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Medicine
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Dr. Karin Wu is Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Staff Physician at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Her work centers on improving care for patients with osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Her research uses both clinical and translational methods to understand the interactions between nutrition, the gut microbiome, and skeletal health, and to create new approaches for fracture prevention.
Publications
Why Do Residents Discontinue Metformin on Admission? Exploring a Contestable Standard of Care.
Journal of general internal medicine
Skeletal effects of sleeve gastrectomy, by sex and menopausal status and compared to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Skeletal effects of sleeve gastrectomy, by sex and menopausal status and in comparison to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Alteration in the gut microbiome is associated with changes in bone metabolism after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Intestinal Calcium Absorption Decreases After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Despite Optimization of Vitamin D Status.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Prebiotic to Improve Calcium Absorption in Postmenopausal Women After Gastric Bypass: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
A Perspective on Postmenopausal Bone Loss with Aging.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Hyperlactatemia in diabetic ketoacidosis.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association
Follicle-stimulating hormone level and changes in bone mass and body composition in older women and men.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Current Radiology Reports
Causes of False-Positive Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Ectopic Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma of the Nasopharynx Diagnosed by Gallium 68 DOTATATE Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography.
World neurosurgery
D-dimer as an applicable test for detection of posttraumatic deep vein thrombosis in lower limb fracture.
American journal of orthopedics (Belle Mead, N.J.)
Radial stretch reveals distinct populations of mechanosensitive mammalian somatosensory neurons.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America