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  • What is Metabolic Syndrome?
    Health - 3 Jul 2023
    Metabolic syndrome is a condition characterized by the presence diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure. These conditions increase the risk of cardiovascular illnesses such as stroke and heart...
  • History of Metabolic Syndrome
    Health - 3 Jul 2023
    The risk factors associated with diabetes were observed as early on as the 1920s, but the term “metabolic syndrome” was only coined in the 1950s and then became commonly used in the 1970s.
  • What is Impotence (Erectile Dysfunction)?
    Health - 21 Jun 2023
    Erectile dysfunction is known in common parlance as impotence. It signifies the inability to get and maintain an erection necessary for a satisfactory sexual intercourse. This is a fairly common...
  • Gestational Diabetes Pathophysiology
    Health - 16 Jun 2023
    The exact pathophysiology of gestational diabetes is unknown. One main aspect of the underlying pathology is insulin resistance, where the body’s cells fail to respond to the hormone insulin in the...
  • What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis?
    Health - 13 Jun 2023
    Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a complication of diabetes mellitus. It is characterized by a severe rise in blood sugar or hyperglycemia along with dehydration, shock and in some cases...
  • What is Diabetes Insipidus?
    Health - 23 Feb 2023
    Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a condition that arises either due to the body’s inability to produce sufficient quantities of the hormone known as ADH.
  • Dupuytren’s Contracture: Causes and Symptoms
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    Dupuytren’s contracture is a progressive condition that impacts the fingers and the hands, causing at least one finger, and possibly several, to bend toward the palm of the hand. Essentially,...
  • Diabetic Foot Problems
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    Diabetes is a condition that results in high blood sugar (glucose) in a patient because the body is not making enough of the hormone insulin, which helps break down the sugar entering the cells and...
  • Symptoms and diagnosis of fungal nail infections
    Health - 17 Jul 2023
    Fungal nail infections, also called onychomycosis, are among the most common nail disorders. With rising prevalence of conditions like diabetes and increasing number of the aged population the numbers...
  • Diabetes Insipidus Classification
    Health - 6 Jul 2023
    There are four types of diabetes insipidus including: Central or cranial diabetes insipidus, Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, Dipsogenic diabetes insipidus and Gestational diabetes insipidus

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