{"id":11784,"date":"2024-10-01T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:30:21","slug":"our-future-health-a-new-uk-health-research-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/our-future-health-a-new-uk-health-research-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Our future health: A new UK health research programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week I walked into Boots &nbsp;and, after giving some physical measurements, including my blood pressure and cholesterol levels, I gave a blood sample to be part of the Our Future Health initiative. Our Future Health (<a href=\"https:\/\/ourfuturehealth.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/ourfuturehealth.org.uk\/<\/a>) &nbsp;is set to become the UK&#8217;s largest health research programme ever. With the aim of recruiting five million volunteers across the country, it aims to revolutionise the way we detect, prevent and treat disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The breadth, depth and detail of Our Future Health makes it a world-leading resource. The data collected could hold the key to a wide range of health discoveries, such as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identifying early signals to detect disease much earlier.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accurately predicting who is at higher risk of disease.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Developing better interventions and more effective treatments and technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How&#8217;s it going so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of recruitment in July 2022 (delyed because of Covid), the programme has recruited over one million participants where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Over 1.19 million participants have completed the baseline health questionnaire.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>330,058 participants have had their genetic data analysed (genotyped).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nearly 1 million participants have linked health records, including cancer-related data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This data will be carefully collated to reflect the UK&#8217;s diverse population, with plans to expand recruitment nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What data will be collected?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers accessing Our Future Health will have a wealth of information at their fingertips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Participant data: basic registration, consent and demographic details.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Questionnaire data: self-reported health information plus details of household, socio-economic status, education, employment and family health history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Genotype array data: genetic data from blood samples, including single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) information. &#8211; Linked health records: including NHS data and death records from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All the data are stored securely and can be accessed only by researchers from universities, charities, the NHS and companies involved in health research &#8211; giving them the opportunity to discover and test more effective ways to predict, detect and treat major diseases, where researchers can access it to make ground-breaking discoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you&#8217;re 18 or over and live in the UK, why not get involved? 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