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Generations of Health: Meet the Families Behind the Bogalusa Heart Study
Family First: A Tradition of Discovery The Bogalusa Heart Study was one of the first ever longitudinal studies to find that cardiovascular risk factors were detectable even at a young age, despite notions that heart disease had little to do with children or young...
Multi-generational Health Studies: Meet the Families Behind the Bogalusa Heart Study
Family First: A Tradition of Discovery The Bogalusa Heart Study was one of the first ever longitudinal studies to find that cardiovascular risk factors were detectable even at a young age, despite notions that heart disease had little to do with children or young...
The Study that Proved Heart Disease Starts in Childhood
What Doctors Didn’t See Until Bogalusa Most people used to think heart disease had nothing to do with kids. But the Bogalusa Heart Study shattered this myth. This long-term study, founded in 1973 by Dr. Gerald Berenson, was the first to prove that heart disease in...
Celebrating 50 Years of Heart Disease Prevention in Children—and a New Era of Brain Health Research
Fifty years ago, in the rural town of Bogalusa, Louisiana, a group of researchers began asking bold questions about children’s health. Could early signs of heart disease be detected in kids? Could prevention begin decades before diagnosis? Those questions launched the...
Study has 1,000th follow up
Bogalusa Daily News Story The Bogalusa Heart Study recently had its landmark 1,000th follow-up study participant, and doctors hope to hear from many more. The Bogalusa Heart Study began in 1973, as more than 12,000 children and adults in the Bogalusa area were...
Landmark heart study in Bogalusa wants to find early participants
WWLTV.com Story BOGALUSA, La. - It was groundbreaking research here in Southeast Louisiana by Dr. Gerald Berenson of both LSU Health Sciences Center and Tulane Medical Center. The Bogalusa Heart Study taught us, if your childhood weight was high, if you did not...