Addressing the higher risk of African-Americans to heart attacks is vital to the African-American community, Innis argues.

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Now, Innis and CORE are looking to help start up a small clinical trial at New York's Cabrini Medical Center to help answer some of these questions, while at the same time shoring up a still-unproven technology.

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