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Preventing heart attack and stroke through awareness

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Iris from Baltimore shares her experience participating in a Future of Medicine Community Health Screening at Liberty Grace Church of God, within a neighborhood she’s called home since childhood. After discovering she had high cholesterol in 2022, Iris knew how critical it was to get tested again.

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”Knowing that high cholesterol can cause heart attacks or strokes, I felt it was important to get tested,” Iris explains. “If you don’t know, it can only hurt you. You need to know so it can be taken care of.”