How the Framingham Heart Study Works

Stuff You Should Know

• Episode: How the Framingham Heart Study Works
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss
• Duration: 00:56:29
• Published: 2018-03-22 15:25

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. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com