Results show that participants with severe, untreated sleep apnea had a significant reduction in white matter fiber integrity in multiple brain areas. This brain damage was accompanied by impairments to cognition, mood and daytime alertness.
An iron deficiency can cause the nail bed to be thin and concave and have raised ridges. While most of Fox's patients don't come in to report nail problems, he routinely checks patients to make sure they have healthy fingernails. The nails offer many little clues to what's going on inside you.
That method seems to cause the force on one part of the nail and bed to balance the forces from the other parts, they added. Rauch noted that pregnant women and children tend to get ingrown toenails more often than other groups of people.