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: everything from evolution to selecting a spouse.
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In this episode, Josh and Chuck dive deep into the Framingham Heart Study, one of the most influential medical research projects ever conducted. Starting with how President FDR's death from hypertension sparked a national interest in understanding cardiovascular disease, they explore how this small Massachusetts town became the birthplace of modern preventative medicine and how the study's findings literally shaped everything we know about heart disease today. From establishing the link between smoking and heart disease to creating the now-ubiquitous Framingham Risk Score that doctors use to assess your cardiac health, this episode reveals how a decades-long commitment to studying ordinary people led to extraordinary scientific breakthroughs that changed medicine forever.
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