The Framingham Heart Study enrolled more than 5,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, starting in 1948, and later expanded to include the grandchildren of the original volunteers.
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- The Ten Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.framinghamheartstudy.org/fhs-about/ (framinghamheartstudy.org)
- https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.01.059 (jacc.org)
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