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They report that climate change is likely to further increase the frequency and severity of these destructive floods in the coming decades.

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The 46-year-old said: "It didn't sink in for weeks that he had cancer and the severity of it, because he was stage four."

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"They go up quickly after damage to the kidneys, and they go up in relation to the severity of the injury. The worse the kidney injury is, the higher the ceramide levels will be."

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Dr. Thierry notes that ongoing overproduction of NETs, driven by cycles of inflammation and clot formation, may worsen disease severity.

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Those in larger islets were still attacked, but were more durable allowing patients to still produce low levels of insulin which reduced the severity of their disease.

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