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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Hypertension is a silent killer because it is deadly and has no significant early symptoms. The danger from hypertension is the extra load on the heart, which can lead to hypertensive heart disease and kidney damage. This occurs without any major symptoms until the high blood pressure becomes extreme. Regular blood pressure checks are an important method of catching hypertension before it can kill you.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.