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Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.
Chronic marijuana use can damage the white blood cells and reduce the immune system's ability to respond to disease by as much as 40%. Without a strong immune system, the body is vulnerable to all kinds of degenerative and infectious diseases.
More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.