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Edema: What Is, Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

What is Edema?

It is the swelling of various body parts, but in most cases, it concerns the legs. Edema arises due to too much fluid retention in the body tissues. In your bloodstream, blood is constantly circulating through your blood vessels. From the ventricles of your heart, through the arteries, it goes to the organs and then returns through the veins to the heart atria.

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