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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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.
Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.