More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
