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Studies show that systolic blood pressure can be significantly lowered by taking statins. In fact, the higher the patient's baseline blood pressure, the greater the effect of statins on his or her blood pressure.
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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.