Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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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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After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
The frontal lobe (green) bounded by the Sylvian fissure (yellow line) and central sulcus (red line),
A football game, in 1879, pits Yale against Princeton. The field was not lined or bounded, and play
The nucleus is bounded by a double membrane called the nuclear envelope