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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
People with alcoholism are at a much greater risk of malnutrition than are other people and usually exhibit low levels of most vitamins (especially folic acid). This is because alcohol often takes the place of 50% of their daily intake of calories, with little nutritional value contained in it.
In the ancient and medieval periods, dysentery killed about ? of all babies before they reach 12 months of age. The disease was transferred through contaminated drinking water, because there was no way to adequately dispose of sewage, which contaminated the water.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.