Innovate 4 Change: An interdisciplinary nursing student-led hackathon.

Background: Health care challenges are increasingly complex. Nursing student involvement in hackathons can help create a sustainable culture of innovation and leadership within nursing.

Purpose: To host and evaluate the inaugural Innovate 4 Change Hackathon.

Progressive loss of bone mass in children with Fontan circulation.

Objective: We investigated bone mineral density (BMD) at different ages after the Fontan completion, and we evaluated the relationship between BMD, vitamin D levels, and pertinent patient variables.

Methods: A cross-sectional sample of 64 patients was examined with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans to determine BMD. Of these patients, 24 were also examined with BoneXpert software to determine bone mass density (BMX), expressed as the bone health index (BHI).

Advanced glycation end products in children with type 1 diabetes and early reduced diastolic heart function.

Background: Reduced diastolic function is an early sign of diabetes cardiomyopathy in adults and is associated with elevated levels of HbA1c and advanced glycation end products (AGEs).

Objective: To assess the associations between early reduced diastolic function and elevated levels of HbA1c and AGEs in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Methods: One hundred fourty six T1D patients (age 8-18 years) without known diabetic complications were examined with tissue Doppler imaging and stratified into two groups according to diastolic function.