Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Internal Medicine
Dr. Kenneth L. Minaker, MD
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Kenneth Minaker works in the field of Internal Medicine. He over the years received 4 awards: "Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program", "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program", "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". Kenneth L. Minaker, MD is a published MD. He published 73 publications, including: 'The effect of age and glycemic level on the response of the beta-cell to glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and peripheral tissue sensitivity to endogenously...'
Publications
- Intra-individual variability in postural blood pressure in the elderly.
- Insulin-mediated reduction of whole body protein breakdown. Dose-response effects on leucine metabolism in postabsorptive men.
- Metabolic response to three years of continuous, basal rate intravenous insulin infusion in type II diabetic patients.
- Health and disease among the oldest old: a clinical perspective.
- Counterregulatory responses to insulin-induced glucose reduction in the elderly.
- Acanthosis nigricans in obese women with hyperandrogenism. Characterization of an insulin-resistant state distinct from the type A and B syndromes.
- Cardiovascular and norepinephrine responses after meal consumption in elderly (older than 75 years) persons with postprandial hypotension and syncope.
- Plasma tryptophan and total neutral amino acid levels in men: influence of hyperinsulinemia and age.
- Insulin action in aging man: evidence for tissue-specific differences at low physiologic insulin levels.
- Splanchnic factors enhance the norepinephrine response to oral glucose in aged man.
- Aging and diabetes mellitus as risk factors for vascular disease.
- Insulin resistance and regulation of serum amino acid levels in myotonic dystrophy.
- The dawn phenomenon does not occur in normal elderly subjects.
- Insulin dose-dependent reductions in plasma amino acids in man.
- Insulin-mediated hypokalemia and paralysis in familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
- Glucose and amino acid metabolism in aging man: differential effects of insulin.
- Somatostatin enhances insulin-mediated glucose disposal in elderly subjects.
- Somatostatin infusion enhances hepatic glucose production during hyperglucagonemia.
- Somatostatin does not alter insulin-mediated glucose disposal.
- Phenytoin-induced improvement in muscle cramping and insulin action in three patients with the syndrome of insulin resistance, acanthosis nigricans, and acral hypertro...
- Effect of age on systemic delivery of oral glucose in men.
- Leucine metabolism in aging humans: effect of insulin and substrate availability.
- Escape of hepatic glucose production during hyperglycemic clamp.
- Impairment of noninsulin-mediated glucose disposal in the elderly.
- Effect of insulin on plasma norepinephrine and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine in obese men.
- Dizziness in geriatric practice.
- Principles of surgical risk assessment of the elderly patient.
- High-carbohydrate, high-fiber diets increase peripheral insulin sensitivity in healthy young and old adults.
- Atrial natriuretic peptide suppresses osmostimulated vasopressin release in young and elderly humans.
- Islet cell responses to glucose in human transplanted pancreas.
- Serum albumin level on admission as a predictor of death, length of stay, and readmission.
- Blood pressure, pulse, and neurohumoral responses to nitroprusside-induced hypotension in normotensive aging men.
- [Principles of surgical risk assessment in the elderly].
- Atrial natriuretic peptide levels in the prediction of congestive heart failure risk in frail elderly.
- Megacolon in patients with chronic spinal cord injury.
- Atrial natriuretic peptide and the development of congestive heart failure in the oldest old: a seven-year prospective study.
- The effect of age and glycemic level on the response of the beta-cell to glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and peripheral tissue sensitivity to endogenously...
- Atrial natriuretic peptide level contributes to a model of future mortality in the oldest old.
- Effects of hypertonicity on water intake in the elderly: an age-related failure.
- Constipation-related symptoms and bowel program concerning individuals with spinal cord injury.
- How do older persons define constipation? Implications for therapeutic management.
- Comorbid illness is associated with survival and length of hospital stay in patients with chronic disability. A prospective comparison of three comorbidity indices.
- Atrial natriuretic peptide levels in the elderly: differentiating normal aging changes from disease.
- Bowel habit in relation to age and gender. Findings from the National Health Interview Survey and clinical implications.
- Reporting of age data in clinical trials of arthritis. Deficiencies and solutions.
- Sequential evaluation of islet cell responses to glucose in the transplanted pancreas in humans.
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention: improving practice and a stimulus for research.
- Constipation in the elderly.
- Risk assessment for pressure ulcers: an adaptation of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel risk factors to spinal cord injured patients.
- A study of manufacturer-supported trials of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of arthritis.
- Effects of recombinant human IGF-I on glucose and leucine kinetics in men.
- Dehydration and death during febrile episodes in the nursing home.
- Constipation: assessment and management in an institutionalized elderly population.
- The insulinotropic actions of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (7-37) in normal and diabetic subjects.
- Performance-based driving evaluation of the elderly driver: safety, reliability, and validity.
- Indices of dehydration among frail nursing home patients: highly variable but stable over time.
- Clinical triggers for detection of fever and dehydration. Implications for long-term care nursing.
- Late-life spinal cord injury and aging with a long term injury: characteristics of two emerging populations.
- Correlates of regular laxative use by frail elderly persons.
- Dehydration. Evaluation and management in older adults. Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association.
- Age-related failure of volume-pressure-mediated vasopressin release.
- Effect of insulin and glucose infusions on sympathetic nervous system activity in normal man.
- Impaired in vivo insulin clearance in patients with severe target-cell resistance to insulin.
- Influence of age on clearance of insulin in man.
- Effect of age on insulin stimulation of sympathetic nervous system activity in man.
- Effect of exogenous vasopressin on vasopressin release.
- Whole body insulin resistance in myotonic dystrophy.
- Characterization of the insulin resistance of aging.
- Potassium homeostasis during hyperinsulinemia: effect of insulin level, beta-blockade, and age.
- Painful feet in rheumatoid arthritis.
- By the way, doctor. My primary care doctor tells me that all sleeping pills on the market are addictive. Does this mean you develop a craving for them or simply that y...
- Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial.
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Commercial Insurance Company
- GHI PPO
- Medicare MCR
Awards
- Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Massachusetts General Hospital
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