The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease: a historical perspective.

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Published in Lancet on September 29, 2013

Authors

Syed S Mahmood1, Daniel Levy2, Ramachandran S Vasan3, Thomas J Wang4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
2: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Population Research Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
3: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Department of Medicine and Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
4: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. Electronic address: thomas.j.wang@vanderbilt.edu.

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