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Mike Leavitt

The heart study beats on

By Mike Leavitt
November 27, 2007

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SIXTY YEARS ago, Americans smoked, drank, and ate too much of the wrong things - then died of heart disease and stroke at higher and higher rates. The town of Framingham turned things around with the help of researchers backed by the National Institutes of Health. The Framingham Heart Study exceeded expectations and changed the way many Americans live. As ... (Full article: 752 words)

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