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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Though Candida and Aspergillus species are the most common fungal pathogens causing invasive fungal disease in the immunocompromised, infections due to previously uncommon hyaline and dematiaceous filamentous fungi are occurring more often today. Rare fungal infections, once accurately diagnosed, may require surgical debridement, immunotherapy, and newer antifungals used singly or in combination with older antifungals, on a case-by-case basis.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.