More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
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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.
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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
