When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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Most women experience menopause in their 50s. However, in 1994, an Italian woman gave birth to a baby boy when she was 61 years old.
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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
