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Cystic Fibrosis Weekly Update Contents: My CF Symptoms Have Made Easy Bullying Targets Utah’s Somer Love Battles CF with Kindness and Strength Poor Diet Quality Linked to Body Fat Distribution in Adults with Cystic Fibrosis, Study Shows Group Publishes Guidelines for Home Oxygen Therapy Use in Children My CF Symptoms Have Made Easy Bullying Targets Feb 05, 2019 09:00 am | Brad Dell Editor’s note: This column discusses suicide. Sometimes, the day is raw, a knife grinding round and round and round in my gut. The day also almost feels like fiction; a thing I’d prefer to fade into my life annals among the other bad things, mere pen strokes that have long dried. But yeah, sometimes the day has […] The post My CF Symptoms Have Made Easy Bullying Targets appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Utah’s Somer Love Battles CF with Kindness and Strength Feb 05, 2019 07:00 am | Larry Luxner Somer Love is sitting at her favorite local hangout, the Landmark Grill in suburban Midvale, happily devouring her lunch. Looming on the horizon to the east are Utah’s majestic Wasatch Mountains, but at more than 10,000 feet above sea level, the range is strictly off-limits to Love — as is nearby Park City and its […] The post Utah’s Somer Love Battles CF with Kindness and Strength appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Poor Diet Quality Linked to Body Fat Distribution in Adults with Cystic Fibrosis, Study Shows Feb 05, 2019 07:00 am | Patricia Inacio, PhD Adults with cystic fibrosis, compared with healthy individuals, have poorer diet quality and increased accumulation of visceral adipose tissue, which is associated with higher sugar intake and fasting glucose levels, a study reports. The study, “Visceral adipose tissue is associated with poor diet quality and higher fasting glucose in adults with cystic fibrosis,” was published in […] The post Poor Diet Quality Linked to Body Fat Distribution in Adults with Cystic Fibrosis, Study Shows appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More Group Publishes Guidelines for Home Oxygen Therapy Use in Children Feb 05, 2019 07:00 am | Alice Melão The American Thoracic Society (ATS) recommends the use of home oxygen therapy in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) who have mild or severely reduced oxygen saturation, according to the most recent guidelines. ATS clinical guidelines for home oxygen therapy use in pediatric patients with lung and pulmonary vascular diseases were published in the American Journal […] The post Group Publishes Guidelines for Home Oxygen Therapy Use in Children appeared first on Cystic Fibrosis News Today. Read More   Recent News My Thoughts on Exercise and CF Hypertonic Saline Activates Neurons that Contribute to Airway Surface Liquid Production in CF, Study Suggests Tried and True Tactics to Stay Healthy in the Office Cystic Fibrosis Canada Holding 30th Annual Golf Fundraiser Event June 17 in Calgary Link Found Between P. aeruginosa Infection and Disease Severity in CF Patients, Study Reports