All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.
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Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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