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Published: January 09, 2024

Three researchers awarded $1 million each to study new heart disease treatments, causes

The American Heart Association’s 2024 Merit Award winners from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and California will look at whether chemicals occurring in foods could be used to treat heart disease, try to unravel some of the genomic mysteries of cholesterol and assess how vaping impacts abdominal aortic aneurysms
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