Landmark heart study expands to genetics
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_he_me/framingham_heart_study"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071129/capt.a81023c9828446aaa8d62c4671ab0fec.framingham_heart_study_bx102.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=HidN9.XwKJz8oSffT7TwfA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Helen Vaughan, 91, a participant in the Framingham Heart Study, seated center, introduces fellow study participant Joe Anghinetti, 102, right, to her daughter, Marrianne Moran, of Methuen, Mass., left, also a study participant, and Dr. Elias Zerhouni, center rear, director of the National Institutes of Health during a meeting of participants and medical professionals involved in the famed heart study in Framingham, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. The study, which began in 1948 in the town southwest of Boston, has analyzed the health history and genetic data of 9000 participants. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)" border="0" /></a>AP - Doctors didn't know cigarettes were bad and thought high blood pressure could sometimes be good when homemaker Helen Vaughn was lured by a 1948 newspaper ad to join one of history's most important medical studies.</p><br clear="all"/>

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