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What Happens If I Drink Alcohol With Heart Dise...

The conditional answer, then the consequences: alcohol's same-night effects on blood pressure and rhythm ('holiday heart'), the slow ledger of pressure and triglycerides, the medicine-cabinet interactions, and the heavy end...

What Happens If I Drink Alcohol With Heart Dise...

The conditional answer, then the consequences: alcohol's same-night effects on blood pressure and rhythm ('holiday heart'), the slow ledger of pressure and triglycerides, the medicine-cabinet interactions, and the heavy end...

Inside-body illustration in burgundy-crimson and amber-gold: a heart valve's pale leaflets crusted with clustered bacterial colonies, while the bloodstream flowing past carries glowing amber bacterial clumps toward the valve.

Can I Get a Heart Infection?

Yes — and the phrase names three different things. Endocarditis explained: how bloodstream bacteria settle on damaged or artificial valves, who is at risk including the dialysis-access chapter, the slow...

Can I Get a Heart Infection?

Yes — and the phrase names three different things. Endocarditis explained: how bloodstream bacteria settle on damaged or artificial valves, who is at risk including the dialysis-access chapter, the slow...

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Can I Get a Kidney Infection?

Yes — a kidney infection (pyelonephritis) is a bladder infection that climbed. The road bacteria take, whose risk list sounds like our reader list, what it feels like including the...

Can I Get a Kidney Infection?

Yes — a kidney infection (pyelonephritis) is a bladder infection that climbed. The road bacteria take, whose risk list sounds like our reader list, what it feels like including the...

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Can Heart Disease Give You a Rash?

Yes — mostly through the legs. Stasis dermatitis, the red-brown itchy rash of pooled blood and pressure above the ankles; the slow-healing ulcers that can follow; cellulitis, the fast infection...

Can Heart Disease Give You a Rash?

Yes — mostly through the legs. Stasis dermatitis, the red-brown itchy rash of pooled blood and pressure above the ankles; the slow-healing ulcers that can follow; cellulitis, the fast infection...

Macro photograph of a glass bulb filled with glowing scarlet-red liquid resting in white ice and blue-white frost crystals — heat holding its own in the middle of the cold.

Why Am I Always Hot?

Always hot — opening windows while everyone else wears sweaters — has its own short list: hot flashes that the SWAN study followed for a median of 7.4 years, an...

Why Am I Always Hot?

Always hot — opening windows while everyone else wears sweaters — has its own short list: hot flashes that the SWAN study followed for a median of 7.4 years, an...

Inside-body illustration in pearl-white, blush-beige and grey-violet: a skin cross-section where a hard white column of keratin forces up through the layers and domes the surface into a single raised bump.

Can Kidney Disease Give You a Rash?

Yes — but a rash is not the kidney itch. Itch is a feeling, often with nothing to see; a rash is visible evidence, and it sorts into kinds: the...

Can Kidney Disease Give You a Rash?

Yes — but a rash is not the kidney itch. Itch is a feeling, often with nothing to see; a rash is visible evidence, and it sorts into kinds: the...

These articles are informational only and are not meant to replace the advice of your qualified healthcare provider. As with any issues related to your health, check with your doctor.

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