The effort became known as the Johns Hopkins Precursors Study. Studies that track groups of people for decades to uncover the ...

This research reinforces the idea that small dietary changes can have long-term benefits. Choosing whole grains over refined grains may help people maintain a healthier weight and reduce their risk of ...

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

“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 ...

Dr. William Kannel, director of the Framingham Heart Study during its early years, discusses the innovations introduced in this first-of-its-kind study which began in 1950 and its tremendous legacy.

NARRATOR: Like many American towns in the late 1940's, Framingham was a small, middle class community. Its stable population made it an ideal site to launch the heart study. The hoped they would ...

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. Researchers gathered a detailed medical ...

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 ...