DKA is highly dangerous for children, says Dr. Arleta Rewers, an associate professor of pediatrics-emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a physician at Children's Hospital Colorado. "About 50 percent of kids who have DKA are admitted to the ICU," she says. "They require very extensive treatment with fluids and insulin."
In October, the Food and Drug Administration approved the PicoAMH ELISA diagnostic test as a tool that clinicians can use to help determine a woman's menopausal status. Marketed under the name MenoCheck, the test measures the amount of anti-Müllerian hormone, or AMH, in a woman's blood. Considering the test results along with a woman's age "is highly predictive of ovarian reserve and timing of menopause," says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. "Using age and AMH together, we should be able to determine whether a woman is likely to go into menopause in the next five or 10 years."
"About 30 percent of our patients are using some form of marijuana, and they should be careful when using," said study author Dr. Halis Akturk. "They should be aware of the DKA risk, and recognize the symptoms -- nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and confusion." Akturk is an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes in Aurora, Colo.
Colorado is one of nine U.S. states that legally allow recreational use of marijuana.
"In the analyses that have been done, genetics probably plays a role that is relatively minor compared to lifestyle," says Dr. Stephen Daniels, chair of the department of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and pediatrician in chief at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora. "When you're talking about the development of these risk factors, which would include high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol, obesity, diabetes and cigarette smoking, a lot of the emphasis really should be on lifestyle," says Daniels, a pediatric cardiologist who focuses on prevention.
Dr. Joseph Simonetti, lead author and assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine said in a press release that almost half of U.S. veterans own guns and that the way people store them is correlated to a specific reason they possess the weapons. “We know that nearly half of all U.S. Veterans have firearms, and like many non-Veteran adults, it is common for them to store at least one gun loaded and unlocked. The challenge we uncovered, although I think we already suspected this, is that firearm safety practices are strongly related to whether individuals keep their firearms for protection," Simonetti said.
If a University of Colorado student studying dentistry is wary of a service dog encountered while working at the campus clinic for military veterans, instructor and hygienist Heidi Tyrrell can fill her in on research at the nursing school that has shed light on how animals help people in distress. Or maybe a vet getting a free dental checkup at the CU Heroes Clinic shows signs of a traumatic brain injury. Tyrrell, the clinic's assistant director, can point across the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus here to a new program run by a neurologist who once treated wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, just outside the nation's capital.
“Time just doesn’t magically heal,” says Adria Pearson-Mauro, an assistant professor of family medical and psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a clinical psychologist at CU’s Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center in Aurora. She says these kinds of threats and the impact they can have on neurodevelopment of someone who is abused as a child physically or sexually always matter. “It doesn’t become less important with age,” Pearson-Mauro says.
