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Becoming the Framingham Study 1947-1950

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  • Oppenheimer, G.M.

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In the epidemiological imagination, the Framingham Heart Study has attained iconic status, both as the prototype of the cohort study and as a result of its scientific success. When the Public Health Service launched the study in 1947, epidemiological knowledge of coronary heart disease was poor, and epidemiology primarily involved the study of infectious disease. In constructing their investigation, Framingham's initiators had to invent new approaches to epidemiological research. These scientific goals were heavily influenced by the contending institutional and personal interests buffeting the study. The study passed through vicissitudes and stages during its earliest years as its organizers grappled to define its relationship to medicine, epidemiology, and the local community.

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  • Oppenheimer, G.M., 2005. "Becoming the Framingham Study 1947-1950," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 95(4), pages 602-610.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2003.026419_2
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.026419
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