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Over time, chronic hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections can progress to advanced liver disease, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Unlike other forms, more than 80% of hepatitis C infections become chronic and lead to liver disease. When combined with hepatitis B, hepatitis C now accounts for 75% percent of all cases of liver disease around the world. Liver failure caused by hepatitis C is now leading cause of liver transplants in the United States.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.