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About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
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Many people have small pouches in their colons that bulge outward through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. About 10% of Americans older than age 40 years have diverticulosis, which, when the pouches become infected or inflamed, is called diverticulitis. The main cause of diverticular disease is a low-fiber diet.
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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.