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Dr. Matthew Gurka to Serve on NIH Study Section
Matthew Gurka, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) at UF and associate director of UF’s Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP), was selected to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity…
UF Health receives national fellowship award to improve psychological care for children with diabetes
Dr. Sarah Westen, postdoctoral fellow, PHHP department of clinical and health psychology Psychological support is crucial for helping children with Type 1 diabetes and their families manage the disease, yet there are few child psychologists with expertise in the unique aspects of coping with and managing the illness.
Immature Dendritic Cell Therapy Confers Durable Immune Modulation in an Antigen-Dependent and Antigen-Independent Manner in Nonobese Diabetic Mice.
Dendritic cell (DC) immunotherapy has been effective for prevention of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in NOD mice but fails to protect if initiated after active autoimmunity. As autoreactivity expands inter- and intramolecularly during disease progression, we investigated whether DCs unpulsed or pulsed with β cell antigenic dominant determinants (DD), subdominant determinants…
Informational value of percent body fat with body mass index for the risk of abnormal blood glucose: a nationally representative cross-sectional study.
To examine the value of percent body fat (%BF) with body mass index (BMI) to assess the risk of abnormal blood glucose (ABG) among US adults who are normal weight or overweight. We hypothesised that normal-weight population with higher %BF is more likely to have ABG. Read More: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/4/e019200.long …
Cytokeratin-18 and enhanced liver fibrosis scores in type 1 and type 2 diabetes and effects of two different insulins
Data on cytokeratin-18 (K-18) and enhanced liver fibrosis (ELF) score in insulin-treated diabetes patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are limited. This study analyzed phase III data comparing basal insulin peglispro (BIL) and insulin glargine in type 1 (T1D), and type 2 diabetes (T2D) (insulin-naïve and insulin-treated). Alanine aminotransferase…
Clinical and Histologic Characterization of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in African American Patients
There has been a widespread misconception among physicians that African Americans are protected from developing nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). However, a formal histologic and metabolic comparison against well-matched Caucasians has never been performed. Read More: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/41/1/187.long Bril F, Portillo-Sanchez P, Liu IC, Kalavalapalli S, Dayton K,…
New-onset diabetes after kidney transplantation: can the risk be modified by choosing immunosuppression regimen based on pretransplant viral serology?
This study aimed to analyze adult kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) for the risk of new-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) associated with viral serologies and immunosuppression regimens [tacrolimus (Tac) + mycophenolate (MPA), cyclosporine (CSA) + MPA, sirolimus (SRL) + MPA, SRL + CSA or SRL +Tac]. Read More: https://academic.oup.com/ndt/article/33/1/177/4554912 Santos AH JR, Chen C,…
