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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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.