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Framingham Heart Study Data and Materials Distribution Agreement

Agreement between the recipient institution, the FHS Coordinating Center and the NHLBI for data or materials requested through an approved FHS research proposal. Use only for that project, with local IRB approval. No transfer to others, no re-identification, yearly reports and return of resultant data, manuscripts sent to FHS in advance, and destruction of the data when the agreement ends (at most five years).

Original license text Edit Purpose: Approved project only Version read: FHS NHLBI DMDA Template, Version Date: 2024-07-02 Checked 2026-10-12

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What you can do

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Conditional
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What you can share

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What you must do

Yes
Share alike No
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Release code No
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Limits

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Location limits No

Datasets under this license

Framingham Heart Study (FHS) (Brain and cardiac MRI scans requested through the FHS research application)
Echocardiograms, CT, and brain and cardiac MRI from a three-generation community cohort in Framingham, Massachusetts, followed since 1948 to find the causes of cardiovascular disease. Images are shared through dbGaP or a research application to the study.