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Author Question: ESRD, patient is on hemodialysis: A) N18.6. B) N18.6, Z99.2. C) N18.9. D) Z99.2, ... (Read 27 times) |
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.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
According to the Migraine Research Foundation, migraines are the third most prevalent illness in the world. Women are most affected (18%), followed by children of both sexes (10%), and men (6%).
Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.
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.