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.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.
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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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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
water molecules
Properties of Water
The Water Cycle
Irrigation Technology Can Conserve Water
Ice, liquid water, and water vapor
Descending limbs of Hadley cells are the sites of the world’s major deserts
