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Cohort Profile: The Framingham Heart Study (FHS): overview of milestones in cardiovascular epidemiology.
International journal of epidemiology - 1 Dec 2015
Tsao Connie W, Vasan Ramachandran S
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The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) has conducted seminal research defining cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and fundamentally shaping public health guidelines for CVD prevention over the past five decades. The success of the Original Cohort, initiated in 1948, paved the way for further epidemiological research in preventive cardiology. Due to the keen observations suggesting the role of shared familial...
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