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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.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.