inflammation
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"This gut damage can create low-grade, chronic inflammation throughout the body that either directly causes depression or makes people more vulnerable to it."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Most children recover, but malnutrition can make measles far more dangerous, external, increasing the risk of pneumonia, severe diarrhoea and dehydration, and inflammation of the brain.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Caffeine was also linked to a reduced risk of inflammation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Novo Nordisk’s ziltivekimab, an experimental drug designed to suppress inflammation, sharply lowered inflammatory biomarkers but didn’t reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
It occurs to me how awful that nickname is: Calling your needy little sister something that’s one letter off from a viral infection that causes acute inflammation of the brain?
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
Like other autoimmune diseases, which include rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and lupus, these autoimmune brain inflammations, or encephalitides, arise when antibodies turn against the body.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
A remarkable feature of the female reproductive tract is its ability to rapidly clear these cyclic inflammations and restore normal reproductive function.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
In addition to the psychological scars of war, soldiers also come here to treat meningitis, contusions, amputations, lung and nerve inflammations, sleeping disorders, skin diseases, and cardiovascular illnesses, among others.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Compounds similar to the snake’s active toxin are used to treat inflammations.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
We slept hour after hour, ate a little, tended our frostbites, inflammations, and bruises, mindspoke, slept again.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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