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The senior population grows every year. Seniors older than 65 years of age now comprise more than 13% of the total population. However, women outlive men. In the 85-and-over age group, there are only 45 men to every 100 women.
All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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.