Dr. Miriam Bredella, MD

• Diagnostic Radiology

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• Northwestern Health Sciences University

  Medical School, 1997

• Effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy on bone mineral density and marrow adipose tissue, 2016-11-15

• Bone density and strength from thoracic and lumbar CT scans both predict incident vertebral fractures independently of fracture location, 2020-08-03

• Red and white blood cell counts are associated with bone marrow adipose tissue, bone mineral density, and bone microarchitecture in premenopausal women, 2020-03-23

• Association between adiposity and cognitive function in young men: hormonal mechanisms, 2016-02-16

• Changes in Branched-Chain Amino Acids One Year after Sleeve Gastrectomy in Youth with Obesity and Their Association with Changes in Insulin Resistance, 2023-08-30

• Vertebral Bone Marrow Fat Is Positively Associated With Visceral Fat and Inversely Associated With IGF-1 in Obese Women, 2010-05-13

• Radiology Mentoring Program for Early Career Faculty - Implementation and Outcomes, 2020-10-05

• Volumetric MRI analysis of plexiform neurofibromas in neurofibromatosis type 1: Comparison of 2 methods, 2017-10-31

• Racial Differences in Bone Microarchitecture and Estimated Strength at the Distal Radius and Distal Tibia in Older Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Sectional Study, 2016-07-07

• Comparison of Measured and Estimated Resting Energy Expenditure in Adolescents and Young Adults With Severe Obesity Before and 1 Year After Sleeve Gastrectomy, 2019-02-19

• Impact of the KL2/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training (CMeRIT) Program on the careers of early-stage clinical and translational investigators, 2022-01-01

• Effects of growth hormone in women with abdominal adiposity: a 6-month randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 2012-01-24

• Positive effects of brown adipose tissue on femoral bone structure, 2013-10-17

• Determinants of bone mineral density in obese premenopausal women, 2010-12-30

• Clinicopathologic characterization of malignant chondroblastoma: a neoplasm with locally aggressive behavior and metastatic potential that closely mimics chondroblastoma-like osteosarcoma, 2020-06-29

• Preoperative Protein or Methionine Restriction Preserves Wound Healing and Reduces Hyperglycemia, 2018-11-17

• Sex differences in body composition and association with cardiometabolic risk, 2018-06-27

• Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue in Metabolic Health, 2022-04-05

• Serum Oxytocin Levels Decrease 12 Months Following Sleeve Gastrectomy and Are Associated with Decreases in Lean Mass, 2023-06-14

• Marrow fat and preadipocyte factor-1 levels decrease with recovery in women with anorexia nervosa, 2012-05-04

• Regional Fat Depots and their Relationship to Bone Density and Microarchitecture in Young Oligo-amenorrheic Athletes, 2015-04-10

• The Effect of Short-Term High-Caloric Feeding and Fasting on Bone Microarchitecture, 2021-09-25

• Body Composition in Pituitary, Adrenal and Iatrogenic Cushing's Syndrome and Effects of DHEAS Levels, 2016-10-28

• Organ dose and total effective dose of whole-body CT in multiple myeloma patients, 2019-10-15

• Bone Density, Microarchitecture and Strength Estimates in White versus African American Youth with Obesity, 2020-07-01

• Suboptimal Bone Microarchitecure in Adolescent Girls with Obesity Compared to Normal-weight Controls and Girls with Anorexia Nervosa, 2019-03-07

• Breath-hold 1H-MR spectroscopy for intrahepatic lipid quantification at 3 Tesla, 2010-02-26

• Impact of metformin monotherapy versus metformin with oestrogen-progesterone on lipids in adolescent girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome, 2013-04-01

• Effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on visceral and subcutaneous fat density by computed tomography, 2015-04-18

• Standardised Nomenclature, Abbreviations, and Units for the Study of Bone Marrow Adiposity: Report of the Nomenclature Working Group of the International Bone Marrow Adiposity Society, 2020-01-24

• Comparing Outcomes of Two Types of Bariatric Surgery in an Adolescent Obese Population: Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs. Sleeve Gastrectomy, 2016-07-26

• Body composition predictors of mortality in patients undergoing surgery for long bone metastases, 2022-01-13

• The Effect of Growth Hormone on IGF-1R Activation in Overweight/Obese Women, 2018-03-10

• Sex differences in pericardial adipose tissue assessed by PET/CT and association with cardiometabolic risk, 2018-02-14

• Impact of Sleeve Gastrectomy on Hip Structural Analysis in Adolescents and Young Adults with Obesity, 2020-07-31

• Association between muscle mass and insulin sensitivity independent of detrimental adipose depots in young adults with overweight/obesity, 2020-05-13

• Effects of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) administration on body composition and cardiovascular risk factors in obese adolescent girls, 2014-11-15

• Comparison of 3.0 T Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Short and Long Echo-Time Measures of Intramyocellular Lipids in Obese and Normal-Weight Women, 2013-05-08

• Osteoblasts remotely supply lung tumors with cancer-promoting SiglecFhighneutrophils, 2017-12-01

• Marrow adipose tissue in adolescent girls with obesity, 2019-10-14

• Region-specific variation in the properties of skeletal adipocytes reveals regulated and constitutive marrow adipose tissues, 2015-08-06

• IGFBP-2 is a negative predictor of cold-induced brown fat and bone mineral density in young non-obese women, 2013-01-04

• Visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue FDG uptake by PET/CT in metabolically healthy obese subjects, 2014-12-17

• Effects of growth hormone administration for 6 months on bone turnover and bone marrow fat in obese premenopausal women, 2014-02-05

• Bone marrow adipose tissue is an endocrine organ that contributes to increased circulating adiponectin during caloric restriction, 2014-07-03

• GH administration decreases subcutaneous abdominal adipocyte size in men with abdominal obesity, 2017-06-12

• Impact of GH administration on skeletal endpoints in adults with overweight/obesity, 2022-04-21

• Marrow adipose tissue composition in adults with morbid obesity, 2016-12-30

• Hormone Predictors of Abnormal Bone Microarchitecture In Women with Anorexia Nervosa, 2009-09-09

• Best Practices: Hip Femoroacetabular Impingement, 2021-01-21

• 43017 Learning about Adaptive Capacity and Preparedness of CTSA Hubs, 2021-03-30

• Assessment of abdominal fat compartments using DXA in premenopausal women from anorexia nervosa to morbid obesity, 2013-06-13

• The dynamics of human bone marrow adipose tissue in response to feeding and fasting, 2021-06-22

• Bone Outcomes Following Sleeve Gastrectomy in Adolescents and Young Adults with Obesity Versus Non-Surgical Controls, 2020-02-19

• Body composition predictors of skeletal integrity in obesity, 2016-03-16

• Use of FDG-PET in differentiating benign from malignant compression fractures, 2008-05-01

• Fat accumulation in the tongue is associated with male gender, abnormal upper airway measures and whole-body adiposity, 2016-09-02

• PET Imaging of Human Brown Adipose Tissue with the TSPO Tracer [11C]PBR28, 2019-02-24

• Preliminary investigation of brown adipose tissue assessed by PET/CT and cancer activity, 2018-09-13

• Modular MR-compatible lower leg exercise device for whole-body scanners, 2011-01-27

• Quantitative Assessment of Whole-Body Tumor Burden in Adult Patients with Neurofibromatosis, 2012-04-27

• Sequential therapy with recombinant human IGF-1 followed by risedronate increases spine bone mineral density in women with anorexia nervosa: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 2021-09-02

• Growth Hormone Receptor Expression in Human Gluteal Versus Abdominal Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue: Association with Body Shape, 2016-03-26

• LOWER LEG MUSCLE INVOLVEMENT IN DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: AN MR IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY STUDY, 2011-07-29

• Short- and long-term reproducibility of marrow adipose tissue quantification by 1H-MR spectroscopy, 2015-11-13

• Vertebral Strength and Estimated Fracture Risk Across the BMI Spectrum in Women, 2015-09-17

• Comparison of Short and Long-Term Outcomes of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents and Adults, 2020-03-24

• Modulation of neural fMRI responses to visual food cues by overeating and fasting interventions: A preliminary study, 2020-12-24

• Brown Adipose Reporting Criteria in Imaging STudies (BARCIST 1.0): Recommendations for Standardized FDG-PET/CT Experiments in Humans, 2016-08-09

• Changes in marrow adipose tissue with short-term changes in weight in premenopausal women with anorexia nervosa, 2019-01-09

• Changes in Marrow Adipose Tissue in Relation to Changes in Bone Parameters Following Estradiol Replacement in Adolescent and Young Adult Females with Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, 2021-01-06

• Body composition predictors of mortality on CT in patients with spinal metastases undergoing surgical treatment, 2021-10-23

• Depressive and anxiety symptoms and suicidality in adolescent and young adult females with moderate to severe obesity before and after weight loss surgery, 2020-06-18

• Adiponectin Is Inversely Associated With Intramyocellular and Intrahepatic Lipids in Obese Premenopausal Women, 2010-12-09

• The value of low-dose whole body CT in the management of patients with multiple myeloma and precursor states, 2018-09-14

• Effect of growth hormone on cognitive function in young women with abdominal obesity, 2016-02-02

• Marrow adipose tissue imaging in humans, 2018-01-10

• Comparison of DXA and CT in the Assessment of Body Composition in Premenopausal Women With Obesity and Anorexia Nervosa, 2010-01-28

• Short and long-term reproducibility of intrahepatic lipid quantification by 1H-MR spectroscopy and CT in obesity, 2016-03-13

• Impaired Bone Strength Estimates at the Distal Tibia and its Determinants in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa, 2017-07-08

• Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue Composition Following High-Caloric Feeding and Fasting, 2021-06-27

• Mentorship in academic radiology: why it matters, 2019-11-15

• Memory and Executive Function in Adolescent and Young Adult Females with Moderate to Severe Obesity Before and After Weight Loss Surgery, 2021-04-07

• Body composition predictors of therapy response in patients with primary extremity soft tissue sarcomas, 2017-07-26

• T2 RELAXOMETRY OF INFRAPATELLAR FAT PAD AFTER ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY, 2013-12-17