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Carl Grunfeld is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a particular emphasis on emergency medicine, infectious diseases, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, physiology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their work spans several key topics including HIV-related health complications and treatments, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, cannabis and cannabinoid research, gestational diabetes research and management, hormonal and reproductive studies, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, and smoking behavior and cessation.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Grunfeld include Rebecca Scherzer, Deborah Gustafson, Michael G. Shlipak, Rebecca Abelman, and Phyllis C. Tien.

Grunfeld has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple publications appearing in UNC Libraries, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Circulation, and the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

  • Association of Vitamin D Status and COVID-19-Related Hospitalization and Mortality, 2022, Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Associations of CKD risk factors and longitudinal changes in urine biomarkers of kidney tubules among women living with HIV, 2021, BMC Nephrology
  • Bone marrow adipose tissue composition and glycemic improvements after gastric bypass surgery, 2022, Bone Reports
  • Body Composition Changes Over the Menopausal Transition in Women With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus, 2023, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Kidney tubule health scores and their associations with incident CKD in women living with HIV, 2021, HIV Medicine

Best Publications

  • Human insulin receptor and its relationship to the tyrosine kinase family of oncogenes

    Axel Ullrich;J. R. Bell;Ellson Y. Chen;R. Herrera

  • Effects of infection and inflammation on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism: mechanisms and consequences to the host.

    Weerapan Khovidhunkit;Min-Sun Kim;Riaz A. Memon;Judy K. Shigenaga

  • Endotoxin and cytokines induce expression of leptin, the ob gene product, in hamsters.

    C Grunfeld;C Zhao;J Fuller;A Pollack

  • Lipids, lipoproteins, triglyceride clearance, and cytokines in human immunodeficiency virus infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

    C. Grunfeld;Miyin Pang;W. Doerrler;J. K. Shigenaga

  • Hyperlipidemia and insulin resistance are induced by protease inhibitors independent of changes in body composition in patients with HIV infection.

    Kathleen Mulligan;Carl Grunfeld;Viva W. Tai;Heather Algren

  • Leptin regulation of the immune response and the immunodeficiency of malnutrition

    Raffaella Faggioni;Kenneth R. Feingold;Carl Grunfeld

  • Growth Hormone Replacement in Healthy Older Men Improves Body Composition but Not Functional Ability

    Maxine A. Papadakis;Deborah Grady;Dennis Black;Mary Jo Tierney

  • Cutaneous barrier perturbation stimulates cytokine production in the epidermis of mice.

    Ladonna C. Wood;Simon M. Jackson;Peter M. Elias;Carl Grunfeld

  • Hypertriglyceridemia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

    Carl Grunfeld;Donald P. Kotler;Randa Hamadeh;Anita Tierney

  • Management of metabolic complications associated with antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 infection: recommendations of an International AIDS Society-USA panel.

    Morris Schambelan;Constance A. Benson;Andrew Carr;Judith S. Currier

  • Metabolic disturbances and wasting in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

    Carl Grunfeld;Kenneth R. Feingold

  • Infection and Inflammation-Induced Proatherogenic Changes of Lipoproteins

    Weerapan Khovidhunkit;Riaz A. Memon;Kenneth R. Feingold;Carl Grunfeld

  • Fat distribution and metabolic changes in patients with HIV infection.

    Sharon Safrin;Carl Grunfeld

  • Role of cytokines in inducing hyperlipidemia.

    Kenneth R Feingold;Carl Grunfeld

  • Association of tenofovir exposure with kidney disease risk in HIV infection.

    Rebecca Scherzer;Michelle Estrella;Yongmei Li;Andy I. Choi

  • Steatosis in chronic hepatitis C: Relative contributions of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and alcohol

    Alexander Monto;Alexander Monto;Judy Alonzo;Judy Alonzo;Jessica J. Watson;Carl Grunfeld;Carl Grunfeld

  • Leptin-deficient (ob/ob) mice are protected from T cell-mediated hepatotoxicity: Role of tumor necrosis factor α and IL-18

    Raffaella Faggioni;Jessica Jones-Carson;David A. Reed;Charles A. Dinarello

  • Introduction to Lipids and Lipoproteins

    Kenneth R Feingold;Carl Grunfeld

  • IL-1β mediates leptin induction during inflammation

    Raffaella Faggioni;Giamila Fantuzzi;John Fuller;Charles A. Dinarello

  • Recombinant Human Growth Hormone in Patients with HIV-Associated Wasting: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Morris Schambelan;Kathleen Mulligan;Carl Grunfeld;Eric S. Daar

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth R. Feingold
Kenneth R. Feingold University of California, San Francisco
Michael G. Shlipak
Michael G. Shlipak University of California, San Francisco
Phyllis C. Tien
Phyllis C. Tien University of California, San Francisco
Morris Schambelan
Morris Schambelan University of California, San Francisco
Peter Bacchetti
Peter Bacchetti University of California, San Francisco
Donald P. Kotler
Donald P. Kotler Mount Sinai Morningside
Steven B. Heymsfield
Steven B. Heymsfield Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Peter M. Elias
Peter M. Elias University of California, San Francisco
Cora E. Lewis
Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael S. Saag
Michael S. Saag University of Alabama at Birmingham

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