A change of heart : how the Framingham heart study helped unravel the mysteries of cardiovascular disease /
Daniel Levy & Susan Brink.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
- ix, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index.
A killer of paupers and presidents -- The dawn of peace and prosperity: and a deadly lifestyle -- Gathering evidence, building on clues -- A struggle for identity -- The people who changed America's heart: voices from Framingham -- The launch of a gold standard -- Wresting control from fate: results that changed a culture -- A near-death experience -- Coming of age in a high-technology world -- Blood pressure: more than just a numbers game -- The wages of sin -- Renegade on the trail of the unknown -- The lifestyle revolution -- Deadly addiction -- Spreading the word -- A fifty-year promise under attack -- The genetic revolution.
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Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Epidemiology--History--Massachusetts--Framingham--20th century. Health risk assessment--History--20th century.