Conversation article by Brian Strickland, MD, Senior Instructor in Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Conversation article by Brian Strickland, MD, Senior Instructor in Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
“The Injury and Violence Prevention Center is pleased to support the Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the continual advancement of the resource bank,” said Ashley Brooks-Russell, PhD, director of the Injury and Violence Prevention Center in the release. It describes the effort as a collaborative initiative of the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
This suggests “that bariatric surgery is an effective intervention for better diabetes management, but the effects are not as sustainable as one had hoped for,” Neda Rasouli, MD, Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinical Trial Program director at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said in an email. She was not involved in the study.
Gregory G. Schwartz, MD, PhD, chief of the cardiology section at Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center and professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado, is leading the VA-IMPACT trial. Despite metformin's long history and widespread use, he said his study is the first placebo-controlled cardiovascular outcomes trial of the drug.
Different eating disorders affect the heart differently, said Mehler, who also is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In people with anorexia, malnutrition and weight loss can cause the heart muscle to shrink and the heart rate to slow, a condition known as bradycardia in which the heart rate is less than 60 beats per minute at rest. Anorexia also can cause other abnormal heart rhythms.
Casey Greene, the interim director of the Center for Personalized Medicine, said the center’s work, in addition to benefiting researchers and patients, has the potential to reduce health care spending by reducing hospitalizations and other medical care related to bad drug-gene interactions.
Article by Carey Candrian, PhD (she/her), associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine: “The takeaway was this: Violence and violent threats targeting LGBTQ communities is at an all-time high. And federal threat monitoring has shown that these threats are incredibly tied to domestic violent extremists and hate crime actors.”
Article by David Higgins is a research fellow and instructor in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: I am a pediatrician and preventive medicine physician, and I have anxiously watched measles cases rise worldwide while vaccination rates have dropped since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic due to disruptions in vaccine access and the spread of vaccine misinformation.
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