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When doctors diagnosed Mary Douglas-Brown, 69, with breast cancer in 2004, she turned to her congregation at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Washington D.C. for support, only to learn that it did not have a ministry to provide health and lifestyle resources that might help her through her ordeal. So she did what any determined churchgoer would do: she talked to her pastor and got the green light to start a ministry herself. Douglas-Brown visited several other local churches to find out what it would take to get one off the ground. Now, 14 years later, not only has she convinced fellow church...
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In September 2014, the NHLBI convened a group of experts in the areas of cardiovascular risk assessment, treatment ...