Excessive intake of sugar: An accomplice of inflammation

High sugar intake has long been recognized as a potential environmental risk factor for increased incidence of many non-communicable diseases, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes (T2D).Dietary sugars are mainly hexoses, including glucose, fructose, sucrose and High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).These suga

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Perceptions of heart failure symptoms, disease severity, treatment decision-making and side effects by patients and cardiologists: a multinational survey in a cardiology setting

Sara Bruce Wirta,1 Bogdan Balas,2 Catia C Proenca,3 Hollie Bailey,4 Zoe Phillips,4 James Jackson,4 Sarah Cotton4 1Real World Evidence, Cardio-Metabolic Franchise, Novartis Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden; 2Real World Evidence, Cardio-Metabolic Franchise, Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland; 3Wellmera AG, Basel, Switzerland; 4Real World Research, Adelphi

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Steroid-associated hip joint collapse in bipedal emus.

In this study we established a bipedal animal model of steroid-associated hip joint collapse in emus for testing potential treatment protocols to be developed for prevention of steroid-associated joint collapse in preclinical settings.Five adult male emus were treated with a steroid-associated osteonecrosis (SAON) induction protocol using combinati

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