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International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(6):1188-1190; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi178
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Commentary: The first Framingham Study—a pioneer in community-based participatory research

George W Comstock

Center for Public Health Research and Prevention, PO Box 2067, Hagerstown, MD 21740, USA. E-mail: gcomstoc@jhsph.edu

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The first Framingham Study of cardiovascular diseases was initiated in 1947 in the Massachusetts town of that name. After various experts spent 3 years considering various study designs, the final basic design was adopted.1 In this form, it is known to all cardiologists, most epidemiologists, many physicians, and even some laypersons.2 In contrast, almost no one now alive has heard of the Framingham Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration, which started 33 years earlier in 19173 even though its success contributed to the selection of Framingham for the cardiovascular study.4 The first study dealt with tuberculosis because at that time it was still a leading contender for the title given to it by John Bunyan, ‘The Captain of all These Men of Death’.5 In the Death Registration Area of the United States in the Census year of 1910, tuberculosis had just recently fallen to second place among the causes of death, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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