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HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS INVITED TO ENTER THE 2020 DAWBER ESSAY CONTEST
Friends of the Framingham Heart Study Extend their Dawber Essay Contest Deadline John Galvani, President, and the Board Members of the Friends of FHS, announce two scholarships for 2020 based on an essay contest: a $1,000 Award and a $500 Award. Eligibility: Open to children, stepchildren, and grandchildren of FHS participants. Applicants must... More
FHS exam suspension due to COVID19 pandemic
FHS exam suspension due to COVID19 pandemic Dear FHS Community, We are thinking of you and hope you are healthy. As precautionary measure to limit any potential exposure to COVID-19, the Framingham Heart Study is suspending ALL in-person examinations of FHS study participants (including all research center and off-site visits) starting Friday, March... More
March 25, 2020: Recent Findings
Haslam et al., 2020 find sugar sweetened beverages may raise triglycerides and lower HDL cholesterol Clinical Perspective What is New? In this cohort of US adults followed for a mean of 12.5 years, regular consumption of sugar‐sweetened beverages, which includes sodas and fruit drinks, was associated with adverse changes in lipoprotein... More
March 11, 2020: Recent Findings
FHS researchers quantified how time spent in good health affects you later in life. Key Points Question Is the length of time lived in ideal cardiovascular health in midlife associated with cardiometabolic outcomes or with all-cause mortality later in life? Findings in this cohort study, using data from 1445 middle-aged participants from the... More
Possible purchase of the Perini Building
Friday, December 13, 2019 Dear FHS participant, You may have heard or read news about the possible purchase of the Perini Building (part of which is the home of the Heart Study) by the City of Framingham. We want to reassure you that the location of the Framingham Heart Study will continue to... More
FOR INTERESTED RESEARCHERS: NHLBI announces plans to fund the Generation 3 and Omni 2 Cohorts of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Time to plan your grant proposals.
FOR INTERESTED RESEARCHERS: NHLBI announces plans to fund the Generation 3 and Omni 2 Cohorts of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Time to plan your grant proposals. FHS Guide for Researchers Edition: December 4, 2019 Dear Framingham Heart Study Research Community, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has announced plans to fund... More
FHS investigator, Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM received two prestigious awards from the American Heart Association (AHA)
FHS Researcher, Dr. Emelia J. Benjamin received two prestigious awards from the AHA this month: the 2019 Laennec Clinician/Educator Lecture, sponsored by the Council on Clinical Cardiology, which recognizes her contributions and achievements in the field of clinical cardiology and the 2019 Distinguished Achievement award from the Council on Genomic... More
AHA News: Obesity, Other Factors May Speed Up Brain Aging
(American Heart Association News) -- The brains of middle-age adults may be aging prematurely if they have obesity or other factors linked to cardiovascular disease, finds new FHS research, led by Dr. Rebecca Angoff, clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Read... More
FHS investigator Michelle Long, MD announced as Doris Duke 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Awardee
FHS investigator Michelle Long, MD announced as Doris Duke 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Awardee Michelle Long, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of medicine, has been awarded a three-year, $495,000 Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to early-career physician... More
Framingham’s Family Tradition: Generations Help Researchers Unlock Medical Mysteries [WGBH News]
The next phase of the Framingham Heart Study will focus on aging — why, and when, diseases of all kinds strike and what we can do to cut the risk. The answers may be within the study’s vast medical archives and the descendants of the volunteers. Read More.