Framingham Heart Study (FHS) - NHLBI, NIH
The Framingham Heart Study marked its 75th anniversary in 2023. Findings from the study over three generations of participants have changed how Americans and their doctors view heart disease and how to prevent, predict, and treat it.
Framingham Heart Study - Wikipedia
The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study of residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on its third generation of participants. [ 1 ]
Framingham Heart Study
The Framingham Heart Study encourages the interest and proposals of investigators in order to maximize the scientific value of epidemiologic data from the more than 15,000 individuals who have enrolled in FHS over the past seven decades.
Framingham is a longitudinal cohort study, a type of epidemiological study that follows a group of individuals over time to determine the natural history of certain diseases, explore the behavior of those diseases, and identify the factors that might explain their development.
Meet the Framingham Heart Study - NHLBI, NIH
The Framingham Heart Study is a large population and epidemiology study led by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The study began over 75 years ago and follows multiple generations to help determine what factors lead to heart disease.
History - Framingham Heart Study
In 1948, the Framingham Heart Study – under the direction of the National Heart Institute (now known as the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute or NHLBI) – embarked on an ambitious project in health research.
Available FHS Data - Framingham Heart Study
The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) is an epidemiologic study begun in Framingham in 1948 with 5,209 men and women. Since that time the FHS has studied three generations of participants resulting in biological specimens and data from nearly 15,000 participants.
Cohort Profile: The Framingham Heart Study (FHS): overview of ...
The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) has conducted seminal research defining cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and fundamentally shaping public health guidelines for CVD prevention over the past five decades.
Framingham Heart Study
• The Study That Changed America's Heart • A Timeline of Milestones from the Framingham Heart Study • Zeroing in on Genetic Link to Hypertension - With 5,000 blood samples collected from two generations of Framingham families, researchers have the genetic material (DNA) to look for chromosomal regions and genes linked to heritable disorders.
Framingham Study - Boston Medical Center
Framingham Study is a population-based, observational cohort study that was initiated by the United States Public Health Service in 1948 to prospectively investigate the epidemiology and risk factors for cardiovascular disease.