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.

Because of the long-term, multigenerational nature of the Framingham Heart Study, Trinquart and his colleagues have also been able to better define lifetime risk — and how that risk has changed ...

For 65 years, the study has collected data from three generations of Framingham residents. Due to the sequester, the NIH is cutting its funding of the study by 40 percent.

The study began in 1948 with a $500,000 federal grant for heart disease research, with Framingham ultimately chosen because of its proximity to major research in Boston and its typical-America ...

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.

He's being examined by researchers in the Framingham Heart Study, the birthplace of many medical advancements in heart disease and strokes.The study is celebrating 70 years of medical ...

For nearly the past 40 years, Splansky has collected data from more than 15,000 participants at the Framingham Heart Study, a long-term, multigenerational cohort study that began in 1948.

In 1948, a group of government researchers arrived in a small New England city to begin a long-term epidemiologic study of its residents. In the ensuing 42 years, their research has come to have ...

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 ...