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Amphetamine poisoning can cause intravascular coagulation, circulatory collapse, rhabdomyolysis, ischemic colitis, acute psychosis, hyperthermia, respiratory distress syndrome, and pericarditis.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Hip fractures are the most serious consequences of osteoporosis. The incidence of hip fractures increases with each decade among patients in their 60s to patients in their 90s for both women and men of all populations. Men and women older than 80 years of age show the highest incidence of hip fractures.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.