THE role of lipids as predictors of coronary heart disease has become of considerable interest during the past two decades. Many individual lipids, such as the serum cholesterol, phospholipid and ...

Dr. William Kannel, director of the Framingham Heart Study during its early years, discusses the innovations introduced in this first-of-its-kind study which began in 1950 and its tremendous legacy.

[1] In a broad population sample, Framingham Heart Study investigators reported evaluating 7,814 free-living participants, 822 (10.5%) of which reported at least one syncopal event during an ...

NARRATOR: Like many American towns in the late 1940's, Framingham was a small, middle class community. Its stable population made it an ideal site to launch the heart study. The hoped they would ...

Tool and Study Selection: We included risk calculation tools that used the Framingham risk equations to generate a global coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. To determine tool accuracy, we reviewed ...

was selected as the study site. More than 5,200 healthy men and women volunteered to participate in what soon became known as the Framingham Heart Study. Researchers gathered a detailed medical ...

A study was conducted to determine the relationship between age at atrial fibrillation diagnosis and risk for stroke.

Other authors also are with the Biggs Institute, as well as Tufts Medical Center in Boston; the Framingham Heart Study; Boston University School of Public Health; University of California-Davis ...

Boston University and the NIH conducted a prospective analysis of data from participants enrolled in the Framingham Heart Study. “We are very fortunate to have several decades of detailed ...