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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.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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.