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McCain 22 percent, Obama 3 percent
No, those aren't polling numbers from American Samoa.
Those are the worst-case computed results of each candidate's risk of having a heart attack over the next 10 years, using a popular heart-health assessment tool known as the Framingham Risk Score. This data was first surfaced by the brilliant folks at The Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
The Journal reports:
"According to the most recent data in his medical record, McCain is a 71-year-old male, and apparent non-smoker with total chol...
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