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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.