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

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 ...

Now in its seventh decade, the Framingham Heart Study is the longest-running population ... You can even take a questionnaire to estimate your own risk of heart disease and learn the steps you ...

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

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 recent study, Mass General Brigham researchers demonstrated that through low-cost genetic samples, that can be obtained from a cheek swab or blood test, they can improve identification of people ...

Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed. Over 13 years of ...

Adding the COPD polygenic risk score (PRS) to the Lung Function Questionnaire clinical ... of adults have undiagnosed COPD, based on Framingham Heart Study findings, and some 70% of COPD in ...