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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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
classification of endocrine hormones
Classification of Sex Steroid Hormones
A long, narrow cobbled street in Old San Juan.
Classification of Antidysrhythmics
Classification of Anti-Infective Drugs
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