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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.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.