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In Your 20s and 30s? You’re at an Increased Risk For Heart Attacks and Strokes
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Heart attacks are normally the sort of thing that people expect to occur in elderly people. Recent studies, however, show that the young are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cardiac events. Heart attacks especially are on the rise among adults who are in their 30s or younger. In fact, the proportion of heart attack patients who…
What’s an STD? 1 in 5 Young People Don’t Know
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
As a general rule, young people have quite a bit of sex. Given the decline, if not elimination, of the social taboo against premarital sex, overly sexualized advertisements that help create an “everybody’s doing it” mentality, easy access to alcohol on college campuses and the ever-present specter of peer pressure, it is no surprise that…
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