The Framingham Heart Study, which first applied the principles of epidemiology to cardiovascular disease and laid the foundations for the development of antihypertensives and lipid-lowering drugs ...

In a world in which there is little that you can control, you have enormous control over your risk factors for heart disease.

The findings revealed an inverse association ... Study I and 3,299 male and 4,001 female participants in the Framingham Heart Study, respectively. The analysis controlling for known risk factors ...

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 ...

The ability to predict spirometry-defined COPD was significantly better when a modified lung function questionnaire score was ...

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 ...

While the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends against spirometry to check everyone for COPD, some 5% of adults have undiagnosed COPD, based on Framingham Heart Study findings ...

Scientists have discovered a blood marker that could help identify people at risk of developing dementia long before they start showing ...