When the study began in 1948, about 10,000 of Framingham's 28,000 residents fell within the study's preferred age range of 30 to 62 years (the age group shown to precede that at risk of developing ...

New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed from one another.

A “pitch-shifting” technique may help mitigate privacy risks of digital voice analyses while preserving features needed to ...

“You’re going to lose a major investment that we’ve been making over the last 65 years,” Karen Antman, dean of Boston University School of Medicine, which co-runs the Framingham Heart Study, told the ...

Using the data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), the researchers conducted analysis on several blood markers and their ...

Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas, it's safe to say, is not a household name. Although you can find details about her work here and ...

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 ...

This research reinforces the idea that small dietary changes can have long-term benefits. Choosing whole grains over refined ...

The town of Framingham, Massachusetts, 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.

The study’s researchers scanned the brains of older women who have used HT, observing tau accumulation, a hallmark of Alzheimer disease.