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Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in the United StatesP W Wilson
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 32:S56-65. 1998..This review focuses on commonly accepted risk factors that are of particular interest to health professionals...
Applicability of cholesterol-lowering primary prevention trials to a general population: the framingham heart studyD M Lloyd-Jones
Framingham Heart Study, 5 Thurber St, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:949-54. 2001..Four large trials have shown cholesterol-reduction therapy to be effective for primary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD)...
Apolipoprotein E alleles and risk of coronary disease. A meta-analysisP W Wilson
Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, MA 01701, USA
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 16:1250-5. 1996..76 (0.55-1.05) for epsilon 2 and OR = 1.11 (0.88-1.40) for epsilon 4. The overall impression is that epsilon 4 is associated with clinical and coronary disease and that results are similar in men and women...
Clustering of metabolic factors and coronary heart diseaseP W Wilson
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Mass 01701, USA
Arch Intern Med 159:1104-9. 1999..The degree of clustering for common metabolic coronary disease risk factors is not well known, the antecedents of clustering are not well studied, and the impact of such clusters on coronary risk has not been assessed systematically...
Prediction of coronary heart disease using risk factor categoriesP W Wilson
Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Mass 01701, USA
Circulation 97:1837-47. 1998....
Diabetes mellitus and coronary heart diseaseP W Wilson
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 32:S89-100. 1998..Recent guidelines and recommendations concerning lipids, glucose, and blood pressure for diabetics are discussed...
Elevated midlife blood pressure increases stroke risk in elderly persons: the Framingham StudyS Seshadri
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:2343-50. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: Antecedent BP contributes to the future risk of ischemic stroke. Optimal prevention of late-life stroke will likely require control of midlife BP...
A prospective investigation of elevated lipoprotein (a) detected by electrophoresis and cardiovascular disease in women. The Framingham Heart StudyA G Bostom
Framingham Heart Study, MA 01701
Circulation 90:1688-95. 1994..Confirmation of these findings in other longitudinal studies of women is needed...
Established risk factors and coronary artery disease: the Framingham StudyP W Wilson
Framingham Heart Study, MA 01701
Am J Hypertens 7:7S-12S. 1994..Among life-style habits such as diet, sedentary activity, and cigarette smoking, only the latter has been consistently used in CAD prediction because of its independent effect...
Body fat and skeletal muscle mass in relation to physical disability in very old men and women of the Framingham Heart StudyM Visser
National Institute on Aging, Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry Program, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 53:M214-21. 1998..High body weight and high body mass index, both rough indicators of body fatness, have been shown to increase the risk for disability; however, the specific role of body fatness has not been studied...
Family breast cancer history and mammography: Framingham Offspring StudyJ M Murabito
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
Am J Epidemiol 154:916-23. 2001..2 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.4, 7.7); recent clinical breast examination, 17.4 (95% CI: 9.2, 32.8); and smoking, 0.4 (95% CI: 0.2, 0.7). Mammography use was high among women with a family breast cancer history...
Plasma concentration of C-reactive protein and risk of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack: the Framingham studyN S Rost
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
Stroke 32:2575-9. 2001..0365) and women (P=0.0084). CONCLUSIONS: Independent of other cardiovascular risk factors, elevated plasma CRP levels significantly predict the risk of future ischemic stroke and TIA in the elderly...
Coronary artery disease predictionP W Wilson
Framingham Heart Study, MA 01701
Am J Hypertens 6:309S-313S. 1993....
