The Human Health Study That's Changing the World

It started as The Framingham Heart Study. Then it expanded into the most important human health study in the world.

PAPERS:

Cover Story | The Heart Study Heard Around the World
https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiol...

The Framingham Heart Study, on its way to becoming the gold standard for Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17916...

A Century of Medical Milestones:
Editors of the Merck Manual Assess the Most Important Advances of the Last 100 Years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...

Factors of risk in the development of coronary heart disease--six year follow-up experience. The Framingham Study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13751...

The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network (Framingham Study) over 32 Years by Nicholas Christakis
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence


Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e...

Is LDL cholesterol associated with long-term mortality among primary prevention adults? A retrospective cohort study from a large healthcare system
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38548...

VIDEOS:

Should You Worry About High LDL Cholesterol?
   • Should You Worry About High LDL Chole...  

Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks TED
   • Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological...  

BOOK:

A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts, Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
https://www.amazon.com/Change-Heart-F...

0:00 When we were slender
0:41 A 75-year study
1:22 Anthony Chaffee fraudster
2:11 Aseem Malhotra misinformer
4:04 Tour de Framingham Study campus
14:35 Dr. Daniel Levy interview
17:37 Obesity
19:48 Nutritional beliefs
20:55 Good science vs bad
22:22 The study that is changing the world