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The Framingham Heart Study, on its way to becoming the gold standard for Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology?
BMC medical genetics - 4 Oct 2007
Jaquish Cashell E
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The Framingham Heart Study, founded in 1948 to examine the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in a small town outside of Boston, has become the worldwide standard for cardiovascular epidemiology. It is among the longest running, most comprehensively characterized multi-generational studies in the world. Such seminal findings as the effects of smoking and high cholesterol on heart disease came from the...
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