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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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.
Studies show that systolic blood pressure can be significantly lowered by taking statins. In fact, the higher the patient's baseline blood pressure, the greater the effect of statins on his or her blood pressure.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.