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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
Hyperthyroidism leads to an increased rate of metabolism and affects about 1% of women but only 0.1% of men. For most people, this increased metabolic rate causes the thyroid gland to become enlarged (known as a goiter).