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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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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 and occurred in Boston. A kidney from an identical twin was transplanted into his dying brother's body and was not rejected because it did not appear foreign to his body.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.