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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
When taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors, people should avoid a variety of foods, which include alcoholic beverages, bean curd, broad (fava) bean pods, cheese, fish, ginseng, protein extracts, meat, sauerkraut, shrimp paste, soups, and yeast.
Anesthesia awareness is a potentially disturbing adverse effect wherein patients who have been paralyzed with muscle relaxants may awaken. They may be aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate or move. Neurologic monitoring equipment that helps to more closely check the patient's anesthesia stages is now available to avoid the occurrence of anesthesia awareness.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.