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People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
Immunoglobulin injections may give short-term protection against, or reduce severity of certain diseases. They help people who have an inherited problem making their own antibodies, or those who are having certain types of cancer treatments.
People with alcoholism are at a much greater risk of malnutrition than are other people and usually exhibit low levels of most vitamins (especially folic acid). This is because alcohol often takes the place of 50% of their daily intake of calories, with little nutritional value contained in it.