On Thursday, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) celebrated its 60th anniversary. Since 1948, the study and its participants have been instrumental in changing the way doctors treat heart disease and its risk factors.
When the FHS began 60 years ago, doctors knew almost nothing about heart disease, including what causes it and how to stop it from occurring. As a result, researchers began to track the medical history of more than 5,000 Framingham families looking for answers. These ‘answers’ became what is now known as ‘risk factors’, a term coined by the study.
The lessons from Framingham demonstrated that lowering cholesterol and blood pressure can reduce heart attacks, that smoking damages the heart and lungs and that moderate exercise also prevents heart attacks.
Source: Kaisernetwork.org
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The study which helped discover heart disease risk factors celebrates its 60th anniversary
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