Official Risk Factor for Heart Attack
Framingham, Massachusetts, is a small industrial town about 20 miles west of Boston. I mean no disrespect to its hardworking inhabitants when I say that you would probably never have heard of Framingham if a team of Boston University Medical School researchers hadn’t set up shop there shortly after World War II. But they did. And they recruited most of the town’s nearly 30,000 citizens as volunteers in a study of who (more…)
