Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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(a) Graph for converting values to p values. (b) Table of values for selected values of df
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