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For high blood pressure (hypertension), a new class of drug, called a vasopeptidase blocker (inhibitor), has been developed. It decreases blood pressure by simultaneously dilating the peripheral arteries and increasing the body's loss of salt.
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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.