Stroke kills people from all ethnic backgrounds, but the people at highest risk for fatal strokes are: black men, black women, Asian men, white men, and white women.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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Warfarin was developed as a consequence of the study of a strange bleeding disorder that suddenly occurred in cattle on the northern prairies of the United States in the early 1900s.
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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
By age 3, children develop scripts for common events such as eating at a restaurant.