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Editorials20 September 2011What Now With Screening Electrocardiography?Michael S. Lauer, MDMichael S. Lauer, MDFrom National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-155-6-201109200-00011 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Fifty years ago in these pages, Kannel and colleagues (1) presented Framingham Heart Study data on “factors of risk” for coronary heart disease. Thirteen years earlier, the National Institutes of Health established an epidemiologic cohort study in Framingham, Massachusetts, in partial response to an epidemic of cardiovascular disease. Kannel and colleagues enrolled 5127 adults between the ages of 30 and 62 years who were free of coronary heart disease. During 6 years of follow-up, 186 men and women developed disease. The authors found that elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol concentration, and electrocardiographic evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy were strong independent ...
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