The Framingham Study will continue to conduct examinations and morbidity and mortality follow-up in original, offspring and third generation participants to study the determinants of cardiovascular disease. The project examines the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors, trends in CVD incidence and its risk factors over time, and family patterns of CVD and risk factors. Other objectives include the estimation of incidence rates of disease, a description of the natural history of CVD, including the sequence of clinical signs and systems that precede the clinically recognizable syndrome, and the consequences and course of clinically manifest disease.
US Code:
42 USC 285b-3
Name of Law: Public Health Service Act
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