Genes & Health
Summary
Selected Practices Only!
High population of Bangladeshi and Pakistani. Please contact the LEH team if you are interested in taking part.
South Asian people have some of the highest rates of heart disease, diabetes, and poor health in the UK. Living with a long-term illness has a major impact on a person's quality of life and on their family. Genes & Health is a medical research study set up to help fight against these and other major diseases. The aims of the study are to study:
Normal variation in genes in adult Bangladeshi and Pakistani people.
Genes in people with very high and very low cholesterol levels, to better understand why heart disease and stroke occurs.
Genes of people with diabetes, to identify rarer types of diabetes for which more specific treatments can be used.
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Sponsor - Queen Mary, University of London
Recruitment End Date - 31/07/2024
Type of Study - Recruiting
RSI Points - 300
Selected Practices Only!
Practice Involvement
Genes & Health is a recruiting study where recruiting activities are all done by CRN staff, practice is required to complete PIC activity only:
Database search.
Eligibilty check.
Text message invite.
Provide clinical room for CRN staff to complete study activity.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
Self-described ethnicity: Bangladeshi, British-Bangladeshi, Pakistani, British-Pakistani.
Age 16 or over.
Willingness to give a saliva DNA sample for analysis.
Willingness to grant investigators access to medical records for the full duration (stage 1 and stage 2) of the study.
Willingness to receive invitations for recall (stage 2 research activity) (actual participation in all stage 2 research activity would be after a second informed consent process).
Exclusion
No exclusion on the basis of gender, or disease status.
Patients with mental and learning disabilities are included provided they are deemed competent to consent. However, patients with significant cognitive impairment will be excluded from the study as they may have reduced capacity.