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...reasons that are not entirely clear, diabetes triggers a wide range of health problems. Uncontrolled glucose levels increase the risk of blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage. On top of that, the 16 million Americans who have Type 2 (once known as adult-onset) diabetes are much more likely than the general population to develop high blood pressure, which increases their risk of heart disease and stroke. Indeed, high blood pressure appears to be even more damaging in diabetics than in nondiabetics. And yet, says Dr. Vincenza Snow of the ACP, "we found that blood pressure was being slightly overlooked...
...Among the patients was an unidentified local man who was admitted to Ward 8A?where the hospital had sequestered pneumonia patients?with a suspected case of SARS on March 15. Test results indicated the man, who suffered from kidney disease, had the flu not pneumonia. He was discharged. In fact, he had SARS, and health officials now think that when he later visited family in the Amoy Gardens apartment complex, he passed the disease to his brother and sister-in-law?sparking a virulent outbreak among residents. Some 250 people in the apartment complex came down with SARS, giving...
...Hong Kong's health officials suspect the superspreader who may have brought SARS to Amoy Gardens is a man with a history of kidney disease. After being treated for influenza at the Prince of Wales Hospital?site of the second major cluster of SARS cases in Hong Kong after the Metropole Hotel?the man visited his brother, who lived on the 12th floor of Block E in Amoy Gardens. During his four visits to the housing complex, the man, who also suffered from diarrhea, might have spread the virus through his bodily waste. (Scientists believe the virus may be present...
...Barbe had been told to expect one walking wounded, but as soon as the DUSTOFFS hit the ground, the waiting company brought out Maita, Talraas and a paratrooper who had been shot in the right kidney. But that wasn't Barbe's only surprise that morning. He knew these guys; this was his old brigade. The soldier with the gut wound was a friend of his, and was rapidly losing consciousness...
...pregnant women who took valproate—a widely-prescribed anti-convulsive drug—about 8.9 percent gave birth to babies with major deformations such as heart defects, spina bifida and kidney abnormalities, a figure more than five times greater than the birth-defect rate of women who did not take valproate...