The Framingham Study was organized in 1949 for the purpose of studying the epidemiology of coronary heart disease in a randomly selected adult population of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts.

although more sex-specific research in the epidemiology and pathophysiology of sudden death in women with heart failure is needed. Women older than 65 years of age will become the largest ...

Researchers examined health data for 5,682 adults (mean age of 56 years; 56% of participants were women) who were enrolled in the Framingham ... heart disease, heart attack, stroke or heart ...