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… if you are an older adult, if you have kidney or liver disease, dehydration, heart failure, heavy alcohol use, if … with a proper diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. Controlling high blood sugar helps prevent kidney damage, blindness, nerve …
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… and periods of slow growth make it hard to keep a teen's blood sugar level consistently within a target range. Eating … actions can be dangerous. They may lead to high or low blood sugar emergencies or an eating disorder. Common ways … or lie about blood sugar test results. Hide or deny the disease when they're around friends, in an effort to fit in. …
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… and attention. Diabetes can damage the nerve endings and blood vessels in your feet, making you less likely to notice … also limits your body's ability to fight infection and get blood to areas that need it. If you get a minor foot injury, … problems. Duration of diabetes. The longer you have the disease, the greater your risk. Other complications due to …
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… see how well the donor kidney matches your tissue type and blood type. To do the surgery, the doctor makes a cut in … they're causing problems. The doctor then connects the blood vessels of the new kidney to your blood vessels. The … so that a healthy kidney (donor kidney) can do what your diseased kidney can no longer do. Kidney transplant is used …
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… can learn to recognize. A cough is only a symptom, not a disease. Often, you can't tell how serious the problem is … with deep pain or swelling in one leg can be a symptom of a blood clot that has moved from the leg to the lung. Yes Leg … sweating Are you coughing up mucus, phlegm (say "flem"), or blood from your lungs? This is called a productive cough . …
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… Shunt surgeries are designed to redirect the flow of blood or belly fluid through other areas of the body. Types … in the belly ( ascites ). They divert the fluid into normal blood circulation. Portacaval shunts. These shunts may lower … eds., Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease , 9th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1489–1516. Philadelphia: …
Medications
… doctor. Combination HRT should not be used to prevent heart disease or dementia. Combination HRT can rarely cause heart disease (such as heart attacks), stroke, serious blood clots (pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis), … thirst and urination) symptoms of a high potassium blood level (such as muscle weakness, slow/irregular …
Medical tests
… Risks Results Test Overview A rubella blood test detects antibodies that are made by the immune … help kill the rubella virus. These antibodies remain in the bloodstream for years. The presence of certain antibodies … infection, or that you have been vaccinated against the disease. Rubella (also called German measles or 3-day …
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… self-limiting and usually does not progress to chronic disease. It is a vaccine-preventable illness. Learn more … B You can get hepatitis B through contact with the blood or body fluids of someone living with the virus. A … C You can get hepatitis C through contact with the blood of a person living with the illness. Some people have …
Medications
… heartbeat. Uses Carvedilol is used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. It is also used after a … survival if your heart is not pumping well. Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and … severe heart failure requiring hospitalization liver disease kidney disease blood circulation problems (such as …