| 1960 |
Cigarette smoking found to increase the risk of heart disease |
| 1961 |
Cholesterol level, blood pressure, and electrocardiogram abnormalities found to increase the risk of heart disease |
| 1967 |
Physical activity found to reduce the risk of heart disease and obesity to increase the risk of heart disease |
| 1970 |
High blood pressure found to increase the risk of stroke |
| 1976 |
Menopause found to increase the risk of heart disease |
| 1978 |
Psychosocial factors found to affect heart disease |
| 1988 |
High levels of HDL cholesterol found to reduce risk of death |
| 1994 |
Enlarged left ventricle (one of two lower chambers of the heart) shown to increase the risk of stroke |
| 1996 |
Progression from hypertension to heart failure described |
| 1998 |
Development of simple coronary disease prediction algorithm involving risk factor categories to allow physicians to predict multivariate coronary heart disease risk in patients without overt CHD |
| 1999 |
Lifetime risk at age 40 years of developing coronary heart disease is one in two for men and one in three for women |
| 2001 |
High-normal blood pressure is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, emphasizing the need to determine whether lowering high-normal blood pressure can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. |
| 2002 |
Lifetime risk of developing high blood pressure in middle-aged adults is 9 in 10. |
| 2002 |
Obesity is a risk factor for heart failure. |
| 2004 |
Serum aldosterone levels predict future risk of hypertension in non-hypertensive individuals. |
| 2005 |
Lifetime risk of becoming overweight exceeds 70 percent, that for obesity approximates 1 in 2. |
| 2006 |
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health announces a new genome-wide association study at the Framingham Heart Study in collaboration with Boston University School of Medicine to be known as the SHARe project (SNP Health Association Resource). |
