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 ...

Although the Framingham study is heart-focused, research using the data goes well beyond the cardiovascular system. Scientists who obtain additional funding can use Framingham data to study such ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In late June, Boston University (BU; Boston, MA) announced that it had formed Framingham Genomic Medicine (FGM) to capitalize on data from the Framingham Heart Study, a project credited with ...