This is the “biography” of the Framingham Heart Study. This is a longitudinal study of citizens from Framingham Mass. The study and how it grew and developed since the late 40’s is an incredible story about a public health problem that had not really been recognized as such. The story starts with FDR’s blood pressure at Yalta or one of those conferences. The point is if he had the reading he did today, he would have been rushed to the hospital. The end of the story is how the people of Framingham revolted when they learned that all the data that had been collected was going to be given to a private company formed out of Boston University. Folks said that they would never have participated if they had known the data was going to be used this way. Over the years, the study collected tons of data that could not be analyzed. The author thinks some kind of private interest should work with the data, but that any sales of the data should go to the Study or to Framingham or the participants.