David Kessel’s high blood pressure started when he was just 13 years old. His doctors gave him many tests, but they never determined the cause. By his early 20s, he was taking 17 different pills a day, yet he still had a hard time climbing a flight of stairs without getting winded. He wore a blood pressure monitor, and its reading routinely hovered dangerously high. In summer 2005, Kessel signed up for a clinical trial in St. Louis, near his home. Surgeons working with a Minneapolis-based ...
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