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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
When taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors, people should avoid a variety of foods, which include alcoholic beverages, bean curd, broad (fava) bean pods, cheese, fish, ginseng, protein extracts, meat, sauerkraut, shrimp paste, soups, and yeast.
Only one in 10 cancer deaths is caused by the primary tumor. The vast majority of cancer mortality is caused by cells breaking away from the main tumor and metastasizing to other parts of the body, such as the brain, bones, or liver.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.