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.
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