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Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.