Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine

Pediatric Endocrinology

Fida Bacha is an expert in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. She researched medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Fida F. Bacha is a published doctor and has 42 publications published. The lastest was: 'Mother's pre-pregnancy BMI is an important determinant of adverse cardiometabolic risk in childhood.'

Publications

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• Mother's pre-pregnancy BMI is an important determinant of adverse cardiometabolic risk in childhood.
• Coronary artery calcification in obese youth: what are the phenotypic and metabolic determinants?
• Pre-diabetes in overweight youth and early atherogenic risk.
• β-Cell Function, Incretin Effect, and Incretin Hormones in Obese Youth Along the Span of Glucose Tolerance From Normal to Prediabetes to Type 2 Diabetes.
• Indices of insulin secretion during a liquid mixed-meal test in obese youth with diabetes.
• Progressive deterioration of ?-cell function in obese youth with type 2 diabetes.
• 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Obese Youth Across the Spectrum of Glucose Tolerance From Normal to Prediabetes to Type 2 Diabetes.
• HbA(1c) diagnostic categories and β-cell function relative to insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese adolescents.
• Measuring ?-Cell Function Relative to Insulin Sensitivity in Youth: Does the hyperglycemic clamp suffice?
• Metabolomic profiling of amino acids and β-cell function relative to insulin sensitivity in youth.
• Metabolomic Profiling of Fatty Acid and Amino Acid Metabolism in Youth With Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence for enhanced mitochondrial oxidation.
• Cross-sectional association between blood pressure, in vivo insulin sensitivity and adiponectin in overweight adolescents.
• Declining ?-cell function relative to insulin sensitivity with escalating OGTT 2-h glucose concentrations in the nondiabetic through the diabetic range in overweight y...
• β-cell autoimmunity in overweight non-diabetic youth: any implications?
• Surrogate estimates of insulin sensitivity in obese youth along the spectrum of glucose tolerance from normal to prediabetes to diabetes.
• One-hour plasma glucose concentration during the OGTT: what does it tell about β-cell function relative to insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese children?
• From pre-diabetes to type 2 diabetes in obese youth: pathophysiological characteristics along the spectrum of glucose dysregulation.
• Islet cell antibody-positive versus -negative phenotypic type 2 diabetes in youth: does the oral glucose tolerance test distinguish between the two?
• Phenotypic type 2 diabetes in obese youth: insulin sensitivity and secretion in islet cell antibody-negative versus -positive patients.
• In vivo insulin sensitivity and secretion in obese youth: what are the differences between normal glucose tolerance, impaired glucose tolerance, and type 2 diabetes?
• Hyperinsulinemia in African-American adolescents compared with their American white peers despite similar insulin sensitivity: a reflection of upregulated beta-cell fu...
• Measures of beta-cell function during the oral glucose tolerance test, liquid mixed-meal test, and hyperglycemic clamp test.
• Comparison of different definitions of pediatric metabolic syndrome: relation to abdominal adiposity, insulin resistance, adiponectin, and inflammatory biomarkers.
• Insulin resistance: link to the components of the metabolic syndrome and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction in youth.
• Waist circumference, blood pressure, and lipid components of the metabolic syndrome.
• Use of markers of dyslipidemia to identify overweight youth with insulin resistance.
• Cardiorespiratory fitness in youth: relationship to insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function.
• Are obesity-related metabolic risk factors modulated by the degree of insulin resistance in adolescents?
• Ghrelin and peptide YY in youth: are there race-related differences?
• Waist circumference is an independent predictor of insulin resistance in black and white youths.
• Racial differences in adiponectin in youth: relationship to visceral fat and insulin sensitivity.
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus in youth: the complete picture to date.
• Does adiponectin explain the lower insulin sensitivity and hyperinsulinemia of African-American children?
• Youth type 2 diabetes: insulin resistance, beta-cell failure, or both?
• Ghrelin suppression in overweight children: a manifestation of insulin resistance?
• Family history of type 2 diabetes is associated with decreased insulin sensitivity and an impaired balance between insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion in white y...
• Adiponectin in youth: relationship to visceral adiposity, insulin sensitivity, and beta-cell function.
• Obesity, regional fat distribution, and syndrome X in obese black versus white adolescents: race differential in diabetogenic and atherogenic risk factors.
• New syndrome characterized by sparse hair, prominent nose, small mouth, micrognathia, cleft palate, crumpled upper helices, digit anomaly, and mild developmental delay.
• Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in an adolescent with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy following exposure to his helper dog.
• Influence of intra-oral maxillary sports mouthguards on the airflow dynamics of oral breathing.

Conditions Treated

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• Hyperlipidemia
• Hyperparathyroidism

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Endocrinology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• SUNY Upstate Medical University
• American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• Texas Children's Hospital

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