In this video, Kevin Messacar, MD, PhD, a pediatric infectious disease consultant at Children's Hospital Colorado and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, discusses what this has meant for pediatric practices, hospitals and children in the United States.
“While early weight loss [after] metabolic and bariatric surgery in adolescents with severe obesity has been established, there is a need to explore social factors,” Richard E. Boles, PhD, professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, said during a presentation. “We aimed to examine the relation of social vulnerability and BMI” through 10 years of follow-up.
In a related commentary published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Satish K. Garg, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Sarit Polsky, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, wrote that the trial revealed how a hybrid closed-loop system can be “safe and effective when customizable glucose targets within the pregnancy-specific target glucose range are used.” However, they said several questions were unanswered in the trial, including when hybrid closed-loop therapy should be initiated.
Teri L. Hernandez, PhD, RN, associate dean of research and scholarship in the College of Nursing and professor in the department of medicine and the division of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, agreed that the first line of therapy with gestational diabetes is nutrition. However, Hernandez said, low-carbohydrate diets are not the only approach in gestational diabetes treatment with nutrition.
According to Richard C. Dart, MD, PhD, a professor of emergency medicine-medical toxicology and pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and colleagues, acetaminophen poisoning can occur either as self-harm or during repeated consumption of doses for pain or fever.
“I want to emphasize that this was done in preclinical models,” Sana Karam, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of translational research at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healio. “I’ve been doing pancreatic cancer research for many years, and I’ve never seen anything eradicate tumors like this.”
“The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented significant challenges for measuring performance given COVID-related deaths may not have reflected quality of care,” Jesse Schold, PhD, professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in a presentation.
The law mandated an out-of-pocket cap of $100 for a 30-day supply of insulin for Colorado residents. Kelly Ciesco, BSN, RN, adult clinic registered nurse educator at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said Colorado’s cap was seen as a huge relief. She had observed many people with diabetes who were struggling to afford insulin prior to the cap.
