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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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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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