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Nearly 16,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts have offered up their hearts for research over the last 60 years – to help solve the mysteries of the nation’s most deadly disease.
For 60 years, the residents of Framingham, Massachusetts have been poked and prodded, examined and investigated to help reveal the mysteries of
heart disease, the nation’s number one cause of death. Host Bruce Gellerman visited Framingham to speak with some of the participants of one of the largest and most important epidemiological studies in history.