Diabetes & Endocrinology Center

Endocrine System

Starling Clinic’s Diabetes & Endocrinology Center specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the endocrine system, diabetes, and metabolic disorders.

Starling Clinic’s team of endocrinologists evaluate the relationship between nutrition and human disease to improve and maintain a person's health, and are equipped to treat a range of endocrine disorders and dysfunctions. They work closely other specialty areas to provide a multidisciplinary approach to a person's medical problems.

The body's endocrine system includes the pancreas, the thyroid, parathyroid, pineal, hypothalamus, adrenal and pituitary glands, and the ovaries and testes. It also involves many other organs that respond to, modify or metabolize hormones.

Diabetes

DIABETES TREATMENT & SERVICES:

• Diabetes diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment options
• Medications
• Monitoring and using results to improve blood glucose control
• Nutritional management
• Pregnancy and diabetes
• Preventing, detecting, and treating acute complications
• Preventing, detecting, and treating chronic complications
• Psychosocial adjustment

Thyroid Diseases

Currently, about 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease. People of all ages and races can get thyroid disease. However, women are 5 to 8 times more likely than men to have thyroid problems.

The goal of treatment for any thyroid disorder is to restore normal blood levels of thyroid hormone. Thyroid diseases are life-long conditions. With careful management, people with thyroid disease can live healthy, normal lives. Make an appointment today to see our Thyroid specialists.

Hormones & Metabolic Disorders

The endocrine system uses hormones to control and coordinate your body's internal metabolism (or homeostasis) energy level, reproduction, growth and development, and response to injury, stress, and environmental factors. :

OBESITY:
Endocrinologists treat patients who are overweight or obese, sometimes because of metabolic and hormonal problems.

PITUITARY GLAND:
The over-or under-production of pituitary hormones can cause an imbalance that can lead to infertility, menstrual disorders, growth disorders and too much cortisol production (Cushing’s syndrome). Your endocrinologist can help control these conditions with medications and refer patients who need surgery..