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Dr. Jaime Butler-Dawson, from the Center for Health, Work, & Environment (CHWE) within the Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH), has received a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. The three-year K01 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences will provides support to examine the environmental determinants of kidney injury in female sugarcane workers and female community members in Guatemala.
Dr. Butler-Dawson is a research instructor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) at the ColoradoSPH and is a founding member of the Climate, Work and Health Initiative. Her new study is part of CHWE s efforts to identify and prevent exposures that may contribute to the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) in Central America.
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CU Anschutz COVIDome Project aimed at speeding lifesaving treatment
Researchers from across campus join in creation of online portal to serve as an open science ‘path to discovery’
Last spring, as healthcare providers and scientists around the world scrambled to treat a surge of patients infected with a virus that experts knew little about, one thing quickly became clear: SARS-CoV-2 strikes people differently.
Faced with solving a mega-puzzle on a timer when minutes cost lives, clinical practice early in the pandemic became a fervent game of trial and error.
Now, on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where the then-new Vice Chancellor for Research Thomas Flaig, MD, had the fortitude and resources to create a biobank of samples from some of the state’s first COVID-19 patients, a promising venture has sprung.
JCI Insight.
“The clinical significance of this
work is that it may encourage studies to evaluate whether simple increases in
water intake may effectively mitigate obesity and metabolic syndrome,” said Dr.
Miguel Lanaspa, a researcher in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
at the University of Colorado Denver.
Dr. Lanaspa and his colleagues
wanted to understand why vasopressin, which maintains the body’s water levels,
was elevated in those with obesity and diabetes.
They fed mice sugar water, specifically
fructose, and found that it stimulated the brain to make vasopressin.
The vasopressin in turn stored the
water as fat causing dehydration which triggered obesity.
JCI Insight.
Andres-Hernando
et al. suggest that increased water intake may be a beneficial way to both prevent or treat metabolic syndrome. Image credit: Bernd Scheumann.
“The clinical significance of this work is that it may encourage studies to evaluate whether simple increases in water intake may effectively mitigate obesity and metabolic syndrome,” said Dr. Miguel Lanaspa, a researcher in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension at the University of Colorado Denver.
Dr. Lanaspa and his colleagues wanted to understand why vasopressin, which maintains the body’s water levels, was elevated in those with obesity and diabetes.
They fed mice sugar water, specifically fructose, and found that it stimulated the brain to make vasopressin.