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The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness
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The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness
A revolution in the science of social networks began with a stash of old papers found in a storeroom in Framingham, Massachusetts. They were the personal records of 5,124 male and female subjects from the Framingham Heart Study. Started in 1948, the ongoing project has revealed many of the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease, including smoking and hypertension.
In 2003, Nicholas Christakis , a social scientist and internist at Harvard, and James Fowler , a political scientist at UC San Diego, began searching through the Framingham data. But they didn't care about LDL cholesterol or enlarged ...
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