| The Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism is ranked
fourth in the nation and the best in California by U.S. News & World
Report. Our endocrinology and metabolism services include comprehensive
consultation and treatment for patients with known or suspected diseases
of the endocrine system, such as diabetes, hypothalamic and pituitary
disease, adrenal disease, amenorrhea, hirsutism, sexual dysfunction,
osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, abnormalities of the thyroid
and parathyroid glands, renal stones, and lipid disorders.
Our goal is to provide expert consultation and compassionate care. We bring
questions that arise during consultation to the research laboratory to
enhance our understanding of disease and to develop new approaches to
treatment. We then bring the advances of the laboratory back to our
patients.
Members of our department are world renowned and distinguished
for their research and treatment of diabetes, osteoporosis, adrenal
disease, thyroid disease, and pituitary disease.
Endocrinology is the study of hormones and the treatment of hormone based diseases. The endocrine glands
produce chemicals called hormones. These hormones are released into the
blood stream and exert their action by stimulating other organs in the
body. The major endocrine glands are the thyroid, pancreas, parathyroid,
adrenal, gonad and pituitary. The hormones from these glands regulate
growth, metabolism, blood pressure, reproduction as well as many other
necessary functions.
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