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But high blood pressure—which two-thirds of Americans have—substantially increases dementia risk, pounding on artery walls in the heart, brain, kidneys and throughout the body.

Ms Hempstead was bitten around her left armpit and upper arm, which severed an artery and a vein, and she went on to suffer multi-organ failure, the inquest was told.

A stent is a small tube that helps open up a blocked artery.

Still, even American-style Chinese food is somewhat of a rarity along Highway 395, the artery that connects the communities along the east side of the jagged Sierra Nevada mountains.

A source familiar with the investigation told The Times that a bullet struck Kirk’s carotid artery.