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...
Chronic kidney disease is a very common reason to withhold or discontinue an oral antidiabetic therapy, precluding many patients from drugs with proven benefit, such as metformin. Often contraindications are not based on data but on theoretical grounds or expert opinion. In this review, we ...
Betty had spent her entire life with a condition she knew could likely kill her one day. She understood that diabetics, anddiabetic womenespecially, are likely to suffer from heart disease and that many die from the condition. It was knowledge she accepted and because of that, she felt...
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kidney disease (or if you are on dialysis); diabetes (unless you are taking pregabalin to treat diabetic neuropathy); drug or alcohol addiction; or a severe allergic reaction (angioedema). Do not give this medicine to a child without medical advice. ...
Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) have been used to block these effects in patients with HFrEF and promote cardiac reverse remodeling. The RALES study demonstrated a mortality and morbidity benefit with the addition of spironolactone to patients with HFrEF on the background ACEi treatment [...
These markers are also among the top five risk factors for prediabetes. This implicates an acid-forming diet as a primary cause of prediabetes. Doctors now track prediabetic insulin resistance with five related criteria: high blood sugar (hyperglycemia), visceral obesity (based on height-to-waist...
Tell your doctor if you havediabetes,kidney disease,liverdisease, orgout. Diuretics can increase blood sugar levels and insulin resistance, so you have to be careful if you're diabetic. Diuretics can also raise uric acid levels, which is a problem if you have gout. Low potassium levels are...
Kidney disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity worldwide, emphasizing the importance for physiologically accurate disease models. With most of the approved renal drugs failing to perform as well in human clinical trials as they did in animal testing, it is imperative that new and improv...
To Rhonda’s surprise, she was able to reverse 2 dental cavities (identified via x-ray) by chewing xylitol gum regularly. See this section of her Joe Rogan interview for the full story. Studies show xylitol can reduce plaque and saliva levels of streptococcus mutans, a bacteria commonly found...