NHLBI Family Heart Study: objectives and design.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on June 15, 1996

Authors

M Higgins1, M Province, G Heiss, J Eckfeldt, R C Ellison, A R Folsom, D C Rao, J M Sprafka, R Williams

Author Affiliations

1: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Family Heart Study (FHS) | NCT00005136

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