ESTUDIIO DE FRAMINGHAM
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Autor: Dr. Miguel Angel Bravo
Resumen
Trabajo de investigacion, basado en examenes cardiovasculares periodicos,
realizado a cada habitante de una poblacion norteamericana (Framingham),
abarcando un periodo de mas de cuatro decadas.
Su importancia radica en las ense¤anzas que nos ha legado, en lo
concerniente a conocimientos especificos sobre enfermedades vasculares,
especialmente ateroesclerosis.
Ademas permitio detectar una serie de factores que estando presentes,
podrian poner en riesgo la irrigacion y consecuentemente la viabilidad de
organos vitales.
Este prolongado estudio y sus respectivas conclusiones dieron lugar al
impulso de nuevas pautas en el campo de la medicina preventiva, prepon-
derantemente.
Summary
This is and investigation work, based on daily cardiovascular exams, made
in each inhabitant from North American population (Framingham), in a period
of time longer than four decades.
Its importance is in the teachings it has given us, concerning specific
knowledges about vascular illnesses, specially atherosclerosis.
Besides, it allowed to detect a series of factors which while being
present, could put the irrigation at risk and consequently the viability
of vital organs.
This longs study and its respective conclusions gave place to the impulse
of new patterns, mainly in the field of the preventive medicine.
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