Country: United States

Study Design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time

Participant age range:​ ​

• Early adulthood or midlife

• Aging adults

Number of participants at baseline: 5,209 in the original cohort

Year of initial enrollment: 1948 (original cohort)

Number of data collection waves: 32 in original cohort; data collection ongoing

Measures of well-being: Social support / integration / cohesion

Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times of well-being was assessed: Low

Quality of well-being measures (e.g., were measures reliable and valid in the study population): Moderate

Measures of physical health: ​

• Self-rated / questionnaire-based health

• Self-report medical history or medication use

• Measured anthropometrics, e.g., weight

• Biomarkers

• Genetics

• Adjudicated health outcomes

Access information:

This dataset is available to all researchers.

Researchers are required to submit an application to access this data. No fees are required to access this dataset.

Notable Citation: Kornej J, Ko D, Lin H, Murabito J, Benjamin E, Trinquart L, & Preis S. (2022). The association between social network index, atrial fibrillation, and mortality in the Framingham Heart Study. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-11.