In ancient Rome, many of the richer people in the population had lead-induced gout. The reason for this is unclear. Lead poisoning has also been linked to madness.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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Immunoglobulin injections may give short-term protection against, or reduce severity of certain diseases. They help people who have an inherited problem making their own antibodies, or those who are having certain types of cancer treatments.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Ancestral versus shared derived characters involving morphological traits.
Derived traits
Heredity and Traits
Familial Risks for Multifactorial Threshold Traits