It started as The Framingham Heart Study. Then it expanded into the most important human health study in the world.
PAPERS:
Cover Story | The Heart Study Heard Around the World
The Framingham Heart Study, on its way to becoming the gold standard for Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology
A Century of Medical Milestones:
Editors of the Merck Manual Assess the Most Important Advances of the Last 100 Years
Factors of risk in the development of coronary heart disease–six year follow-up experience. The Framingham Study
The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network (Framingham Study) over 32 Years by Nicholas Christakis
Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence
Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review
Is LDL cholesterol associated with long-term mortality among primary prevention adults? A retrospective cohort study from a large healthcare system
VIDEOS:
Should You Worry About High LDL Cholesterol?
Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks TED
BOOK:
A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts, Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
0:00 When we were slender
0:41 A 75-year study
1:22 Anthony Chaffee fraudster
2:11 Aseem Malhotra misinformer
4:04 Tour de Framingham Study campus
14:35 Dr. Daniel Levy interview
17:37 Obesity
19:48 Nutritional beliefs
20:55 Good science vs bad
22:22 The study that is changing the world
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