How the Framingham Heart Study Works

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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In the 1940s, a tiny town outside Boston volunteered to be test subjects in a study that would become one of the longest and broadest in the history of medicine. Originally designed to study heart disease, it's revealed things about plenty else too: every

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