The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 8 , Pages 741-747 , August 2010

Health Insurance and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

  • Erica L. Brooks, MD

      Affiliations

    • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass
    • The Division of Cardiology, The Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass
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  • Sarah Rosner Preis, ScD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass
    • The Center for Population Studies of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md
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  • Shih-Jen Hwang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass
    • The Center for Population Studies of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md
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  • Joanne M. Murabito, MD, ScM

      Affiliations

    • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass
    • Section of General Internal Medicine and School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Mass
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  • Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM

      Affiliations

    • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass
    • School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Mass
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  • Margaret Kelly-Hayes, EdD, RN

      Affiliations

    • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass
    • Department of Neurology and School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Mass
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  • Paul Sorlie, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md
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  • Daniel Levy, MD

      Affiliations

    • The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass
    • The Center for Population Studies of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests should be addressed to Daniel Levy, MD, Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mount Wayte Ave, Framingham, MA 01702-5803

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 Funding: The Framingham Heart Study is funded through National Institutes of Health contract N01-HC-25195.

 Conflict of Interest: None of the authors have any conflicts of interest associated with the work presented in this manuscript.

 Authorship: All authors had access to the data and played a role in writing this manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(10)00342-6

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.02.013

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 8 , Pages 741-747 , August 2010

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