The senior population grows every year. Seniors older than 65 years of age now comprise more than 13% of the total population. However, women outlive men. In the 85-and-over age group, there are only 45 men to every 100 women.
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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Congestive heart failure is a serious disorder that carries a reduced life expectancy. Heart failure is usually a chronic illness, and it may worsen with infection or other physical stressors.
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It is believed that humans initially contracted crabs from gorillas about 3 million years ago from either sleeping in gorilla nests or eating the apes.
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Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.
School age (late childhood): 6–12 years, or to puberty.
A horizontally opposed engine design helps to lower the vehicle’s center of gravity.
Members of Sierra Leonean Diaspora Community in London
Countries where malaria is prevalent today are located in the warm tropics and subtropics
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The mitochondrion is the center of energy transformation in the cell