The Framingham Heart Study is the longest running cohort study on cardiovascular health in human history. Last fall, the study turned 75 — we speak with two generations of participants and the ...

Though the risk of cardiovascular disease and death rates dropped by about 75% between the 1950s and 2010, the reduction hasn’t kept up since, said Dr. David Goff, NIH director at the Division ...

Investigators stratified patients by their Framingham risk score for developing cardiovascular disease within 10 years, with 40.9%, 20.8%, and 38.3% determined to be at low, intermediate, and high ...

3. Iadecola C, Parikh NS. Framingham General Cardiovascular Risk Score and cognitive impairment: the power of foresight. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020;75 (20):2535-2537. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.03.061 ...

The so-called Framingham cardiovascular risk calculator was developed in 1991 on the basis of data gathered in the USA between 1968 and 1975. It is named after the town of the same name in ...

Fifty-five years of data from the Framingham Heart Study show that all-cause and cardiovascular disease deaths have indeed declined since 1950 in men and women with and without diabetes mellitus ...