Bishop lecture

Contribution of the framingham study to preventive cardiology☆

This study was supported by Grants NIH-NO1-HV-92922 and NIH-NO1-HV-52971 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland and the Charles A. Dana Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, and Merck, Sharp and Dohme, West Point, Pennsylvania. This lecture was presented in part at the 38th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Anaheim California, March 1989.