CU Anschutz In The News

“There are two general ways to decrease your exposure to wildfire smoke – breathe less or breathe cleaner air. Breathing cleaner air is more easily achieved – though the strategy for achieving this goal varies depending on where you are or how your home is constructed,” Mike Van Dyke, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healthline.

That said, the idea of a link is still being studied, according to Dr. Tamara Oser, associate professor and director of High Plains Research Network Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “The data so far is mixed,” she tells DiabetesMine. “One study says ‘yes’ (there is a link), but another says ‘no.’ We’re still learning, and it’s a growing field.”

If you’re traveling, consider staying at a hotel rather than with relatives, unless everyone in the group is very low risk and has plenty of space to spread out, said Dr. Andrés Henao, internal medicine physician, infectious disease specialist, and director of the UCHealth Travel Clinic at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.