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MET Hours per Week and Mortality Risk

by Larry Shultz| |Public Health

What Are METs, and How Are They Calculated? (healthline.com)   After about 3 MET/hours/day marginal gains in life expectancy start to drop off. Finally, above a threshold life expectancy decrease. Note this also means a half hour of…

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CDC Statement on Antimicrobial-Resistance

by Larry Shultz| |Public Health

More than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections occur in the U.S. each year, and more than 35,000 people die as a result. When Clostridioides difficile—a bacterium that is not typically resistant but can cause deadly diarrhea and…

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