What Does It Take to Study Health for 50 Years? When Dr. Gerald Berenson first launched the Bogalusa Heart Study, he didn’t know he was creating a blueprint for the future of public health. What started with school checkups turned into one of the longest-running, most...
Why February Matters for Heart Health Every February, communities across the United States observe Heart Health Month. The goal is simple. Raise awareness about heart disease and encourage people to take steps that support lifelong cardiovascular health. Heart disease...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Bogalusa Heart Study BHS Charts Risk Factors in Child HealthOriginal Article Tulane Global Health News Gerald Berenson, MD, and his team at the Bogalusa Heart Study have been collecting health data about childhood heart disease risk factors and their lifetime...