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Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.
When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
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.