Word: framingham
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Baskind’s decision came as pleasant news for Miller, who was familiar with Baskind’s days at Framingham High School, where the 5’3” midfielder was twice named an All-American in lacrosse and was considered by some as the top lacrosse recruit from the Bay State...
...colleagues assessed whether the predictive capability of two popular screening tools that heart experts currently use - known as the Framingham risk score and the Reynolds score - could be improved by adding information from two genetic screens that her team constructed by scouring the literature for genes that had been linked to heart disease...
...Framingham score is a decades-old tool established by a landmark study that began in 1948 (and continues today), which identified seven major predictors of heart disease - older age, diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure, high total cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol and a BMI in the overweight or obese range. The Reynolds score is a more recent screen that uses the Framingham risk factors as a base and adds another, inflammation, which in recent studies has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease. (See the 50 best inventions...
...Framingham, Mass., and Currier House