Karin Wu, MD

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Medicine
+1 415 353-8946

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: 

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

Wu KC, McCauley KE, Lynch SV, Nayak RR, King NJ, Patel S, Kim TY, Condra K, Fadrosh D, Nguyen D, Lin DL, Lynch K, Rogers SJ, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Stewart L, Schafer AL

Intestinal Calcium Absorption Decreases After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Despite Optimization of Vitamin D Status.

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Wu KC, Cao S, Weaver CM, King NJ, Patel S, Kim TY, Black DM, Kingman H, Shafer MM, Rogers SJ, Stewart L, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Schafer AL

Prebiotic to Improve Calcium Absorption in Postmenopausal Women After Gastric Bypass: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Wu KC, Cao S, Weaver CM, King NJ, Patel S, Kingman H, Sellmeyer DE, McCauley K, Li D, Lynch SV, Kim TY, Black DM, Shafer MM, Özçam M, Lin DL, Rogers SJ, Stewart L, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Schafer AL

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

Wu KC, Black DM

Hyperlactatemia in diabetic ketoacidosis.

Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association

Masharani U, Strycker LA, Lazar AA, Wu K, Brooks GA

Follicle-stimulating hormone level and changes in bone mass and body composition in older women and men.

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Wu KC, Ewing SK, Li X, Sigurðsson S, Guðnason V, Kado DM, Hue TF, Woods GN, Veldhuis-Vlug AG, Vittinghoff E, Zaidi M, Rosen CJ, Lang T, Kim TY, Schwartz AV, Schafer AL

Current Radiology Reports

Causes of False-Positive Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Wu, K., Ozomaro, U., Flavell, R., Pampaloni, M., Liu, C.

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.)

Bakhshi H, Alavi-Moghaddam M, Wu KC, Imami M, Banasiri M

Radial stretch reveals distinct populations of mechanosensitive mammalian somatosensory neurons.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Bhattacharya MR, Bautista DM, Wu K, Haeberle H, Lumpkin EA, Julius D

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