More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
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Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
