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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
Hypertension is a silent killer because it is deadly and has no significant early symptoms. The danger from hypertension is the extra load on the heart, which can lead to hypertensive heart disease and kidney damage. This occurs without any major symptoms until the high blood pressure becomes extreme. Regular blood pressure checks are an important method of catching hypertension before it can kill you.