Sentences with phrase «common eye disease caused»

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The most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness is diabetic retinopathy, which is caused by elevated blood sugar levels damaging the blood vessels of the retina and affects approximately 7.7 million Americans.

Meanwhile, diabetic retinopathy - the most common form of diabetic eye disease — affects between 40 and 50 per cent of patients with diabetes and is a leading cause of blindness in the Western world.

An age - related and genetic eye disease, FECD is one of the most common causes of corneal swelling.

After a rough season of injuries and match withdrawals, she announced that she was suffering from the fairly common autoimmune disease that causes dry eye and dry mouth, as well as crushing joint pain and fatigue.

Symptoms are similar to the common cold or flu, causing sneezing, coughing, runny nose and eyes, fatigue and general misery, but these diseases are much more serious.

Feline herpes virus is a common disease in cats, causing upper respiratory infection, conjunctivitis (inflammation of the pink tissue surrounding the eye) and in some cases inflammation or ulceration of the cornea.

This virus is an extremely common cause of respiratory disease and results in chronic, often like long, infection with intermittent recurrence causing respiratory and sometimes eye disease.

The most common is heart disease, but they also have trick knees (luxating patellas), hip dysplasia, a disease that causes paralysis of the spine, another disease similar to epilepsy called Episodic Falling, ear problems and deafness, many types of eye problems, and about half of them have a severe blood disease.

«The most common cause of this in dogs and cats is from a disease called glaucoma, which creates high pressure in the eye.

Glaucoma can be caused by a structural problem within the eye or can result as a secondary problem from another disorder, underlying disease condition, or trauma (most common in cats).