In it they wrote: “Years of follow-up experience in the longitudinal prospective study of coronary heart disease in Framingham have confirmed the widely recognized influence of hypertension and ...

Mountin decided to study a large group of healthy people over many years to identify the common factors or characteristics in those who eventually developed heart disease. The town of Framingham ...

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 ...