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Studies show that systolic blood pressure can be significantly lowered by taking statins. In fact, the higher the patient's baseline blood pressure, the greater the effect of statins on his or her blood pressure.
It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.
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.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.