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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
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Stroke kills people from all ethnic backgrounds, but the people at highest risk for fatal strokes are: black men, black women, Asian men, white men, and white women.
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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.