2021

Prevention And Treatment Considerations For Diabetic Eye Conditions cont.

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Surgical Options Recall that damaged older vessels or fragile new vessels has a propensity to bleed into the eye. This blood interferes with your ability to see normally. This severe, advanced diabetic retinopathy is treated with laser surgery, which helps to shrink the abnormal blood vessels, thus reducing bleeding into the eye. The procedure involves […]

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Prevention and Treatment Considerations for Diabetic Eye Conditions

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This posts addresses prevention and treatment considerations for diabetic eye conditions. The first point – and one that can’t be overemphasized – is treatment is not a cure. As long as diabetes continues (and especially continues to be uncontrolled), symptoms will progress, and the diabetic-related causes of eye disorders will create ongoing difficulties, even after

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Diabetes Risk Factors

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Sometimes diabetes is a disease that happens to you because of unlucky genetics (or simply a family history). Other times it is a disease that you find. Risk factors for developing diabetes includes obesity, older age, and physical inactivity. Gestational diabetes (i.e. that occurring during pregnancy) is an entirely different conversation. The CDC-led National Diabetes

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November 13th | Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce on WAKE UP w/the ILBCC – 9am

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Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce on WAKE UP w/the ILBCC – This Week | November 13th – THE SIMPCO SOLUTION Hosted by: Larry Ivory & Malcolm Weems New Episodes Every Saturday LIVE @9am Special Guests Senator Mattie Hunter State Rep. William Davis Jeffrey Sterling, MD, MPH, FACEP SIMPCO Founder, President-CEO ILBCC.org

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2021 Surgeon General Initiative Health Series: MANAGING DIABETES IN OUR FAMILIES

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TONIGHT ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. Presents…. 2021 Surgeon General Initiative Health Series: MANAGING DIABETES IN OUR FAMILIES NOVEMBER 11, 2021 | 6:00 P.M. CST Join us via FB or YouTube… Alpha Phi Alpha Facebook https://www.facebook.com/1906apanetwork/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCo9ezB1jPAnnBHa4g6jiw

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What causes COPD?

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Cigarette smoking is far and away the leading cause of COPD. Most of those with COPD are current or former smokers. Heredity, childhood respiratory infections, and long-term exposure to other lung irritants, such as air pollution, chemical fumes, or dust may contribute to or cause COPD.

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November is COPD Awareness Month. (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) In COPD, less air flows in and out of the airways because of one or more of the following: The airways and air sacs lose their elasticity. Elasticity is the stretchiness your lungs need to fill up with and push out air. In COPD, these sacs

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