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Cardiac arrest survivor’s story demonstrates importance of CPR

… in receiving bystander CPR for Black Americans is exacerbated by their heart … (and) in Minnesota is that African-American folks die of heart disease … Smidt Heart Institute shows that African-Americans were twice as likely to …

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