Interview of William Kannel, MD. Interview by Peter Wilson, Henry Greenberg.

摘要

Dr Wilson: Welcome. This is an interview with Bill Kannel from the Framingham Heart Study, and the interview is being conducted by Peter Wilson from Emory University and Henry Greenberg from Columbia University and the Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases,I'm going to start with a fundamental question for Dr Kannel, what was the purpose of the Framingham Heart Study?Dr Kannel: Originally, it was a response to the recognition by the Public Health Service in 1948 that we were experiencing an epidemic of coronary disease. Joseph Mountin, who was the Director of Bureau of State Services, wanted to have a cardiovascular disease control demonstration program. The newly formed National Heart Institute reported that by 1948, about 44% of deaths in the US could be attributed to cardiovascular disease. That was an increase of about 20% since 1940. At that time, the causes of cardiovascular disease unfortunately were poorly understood.