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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.