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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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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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.
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Today, nearly 8 out of 10 pregnant women living with HIV (about 1.1 million), receive antiretrovirals.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
When the IQ scores of identical twins differ, behavior genetics researchers attribute these to ...