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 ...

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 ...

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

At the time, the concept of risk factors was new; it has since revolutionized our understanding of heart disease and many other diseases. Now in its seventh decade, the Framingham Heart Study is ...

Vasan Ramachandran, a leader of the project who used to oversee the Framingham Heart Study — the nation's longest-running study of heart disease. “No race is spared, although people of color ...

Assessment & Disease Monitoring. More information: Huitong Ding et al, Sex‐specific blood biomarkers linked to memory changes ...