For high blood pressure (hypertension), a new class of drug, called a vasopeptidase blocker (inhibitor), has been developed. It decreases blood pressure by simultaneously dilating the peripheral arteries and increasing the body's loss of salt.
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Side effects from substance abuse include nausea, dehydration, reduced productivitiy, and dependence. Though these effects usually worsen over time, the constant need for the substance often overcomes rational thinking.
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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Black flies are blood-sucking insects who vector disease, like River Blindness, while feeding on hum
Red-Green Color Blindness Is a Sex-Linked Trait in Humans
Examples of NANDA defining characteristics
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A human pedigree of the X-linked color-blindness trait