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...
