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 ...

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 ...

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

the researchers examined stool and blood samples collected from more than 1,400 people in the Framingham Heart Study, a ...

In an era where heart disease remains the leading cause of ... fecal and blood samples from 1,400 participants in the ongoing Framingham Heart Study, the team uncovered the presence of ...