People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
This diagram shows a cross-section of a solar-type star.
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Examples of structures for several integral membrane proteins