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• Study sheds light on how COVID-19 and blood glucose levels increase in-hospital cardiovascular and renal problems

  Date: 18 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/covid-glucose

  People admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are more at risk of developing cardiovascular and renal complications if they have low or high blood...

• Major donation to enhance life-changing kidney research at Leicester

  Date: 10 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/mayer-igan

  Pioneering research by the University of Leicester into chronic kidney disease has received a major boost on World Kidney Day following a generous...

• Five year study reveals “unacceptable” inequalities in stillbirth rates between Black, Asian and White babies

  Date: 8 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/bmj-stillbirth

  Researchers say around 1,800 stillbirths could have been prevented between 2014 and 2019 if ethnic inequalities did not exist - a 12%...

• Research aims to improve sleep for people with dementia

  Date: 11 Feb 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dementia-sleep

  Leicester expertise in behavioural science will feed into a research programme helping to find new ways of supporting people with dementia who...

• Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities

  Date: 2 Feb 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity

  A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in...

• Barça publish Leicester physio expertise

  Date: 7 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/barcelona-tendon-injuries

  An international expert in Achilles and calf injuries from the University of Leicester has contributed to a new guide published by FC Barcelona.

• People with Long-COVID after hospitalisation face limited recovery after one year

  Date: 16 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/phosp-12-months

  People who were hospitalised with COVID-19 and continued to experience symptoms at five months show limited further recovery one year after...

• New Medical Schools Council report highlights Leicester’s COVID-19 research

  Date: 15 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/msc-covid-19

  The real-world impact of Leicester research into COVID-19 and its effects has been commended by the Medical Schools Council.

• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

  Date: 23 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/covid-19-social-stress

  Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country’s rate of infection.

• New European collaborative platform to combat neurodegenerative diseases

  Date: 2 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/epnd

  Members of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) have today (Tuesday) announced that they will embark on a venture to...