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Diabetic macular edema: Macular edema is when blood vessels leak into the macula, a vital part of the retina. This causes the macula to swell, making vision blurry. Many different conditions can lead to macular edema, but diabetic retinopathy is the most common. In people with diabetes, diabe...
Type 2 diabetes, the most common type of diabetes, occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or the body’s cells do not react to insulin. Unlike type 1 that’s a lifelong condition, type 2 is not an autoimmune condition and has several risk factors including: • Being...
If you’re someone who regularly experiences erectile dysfunction, there’s a good chance that you feel anxious and embarrassed about your symptoms. ED is common and nothing to be ashamed of, but there’s no denying it can have a big impact on your sex life and – as a result – ...
In the NOVA classification system, descriptive criteria are used to assign foods to one of four groups based on processing-related criteria. Although NOVA is widely used, its robustness and functionality remain largely unexplored. We determined whether t
The incidence of immune mediated inflammatory diseases following COVID-19: a matched cohort study in UK primary care. MedRxiv. Posted online October 2022. doi:10.1101/2022.10.06.22280775Google Scholar 30. Xie Y, Al-Aly Z. Risks and burdens of incident diabetes in long COVID: a...
For clinical characteristics, trial participants had shorter pain duration (7.1% more with duration less than one year), less radiating arm or leg pain (13.3% less), diabetes (3.4% less), smoking (16.6% less) or alcohol use (9.8% less). Overall physical health was lower in trial ...
You may think that there is little you can do to heal a cavity aside from go to your dentist and have it filled. While this is likely the most common option, it is not the only remedy. In fact, recent research suggests that a number of natural treatments can be used to reverse ...
OSA can affect people of all ages, but is more common in men than women and in overweight people of both sexes.4Approximately 1.5 million adults in the UK suffer from OSA; however, only 15% of cases have been officially diagnosed. Untreated OSA can shorten life expectancy and result in se...
Childhood body size directly increases type 1 diabetes risk based on a lifecourse Mendelian randomization approach Article Open access 28 April 2022 Introduction Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, with 1 in 8 at risk of developing the disease in high-income...