The Framingham study, which started with 5,209 adult residents of Framingham, Massachusetts in 1948, is on-going, and data from the study will be continually made available through the SHARe database.

Data from the first two decades of the Framingham study showed that "if you just take those three cardinal risk factors from Framingham ‒ blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking ‒ if you could ...

The Framingham Heart Study, based at 73 Mount Wayte Ave., began as a research project to identify risk factors for heart disease and has studied three generations of Framingham residents. Data ...

Bethesda, MD - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is making available a database of genetic and clinical data from large population-based studies, starting with the landmark Framingham Heart ...

So the question of who owns the Framingham Heart Study data and who should profit from its sale remains unresolved. Data gathered under the NIH contract belongs to the federal government.

Boston University's sudden cancellation of a deal that would have formed a company based on citizens' private health information may not be the last effort to profit from the data. By Kristen ...

The Framingham Heart study has become a “must read” for students in the medical field, speakers said, and is only continuing to grow and give researchers robust data to understand brain, lung ...

Now accommodating a third generation of participants, the study includes data from more than 15,000 people. ... The majority of the participants in the Framingham study were healthy, ...