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Gayle · 08-08-2008, 20:06

The Government's Department of Health.

The start of the letter says

We are writing to ask for your help in studying the prevention and treatment of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, dementia, joint problems and many other serious diseases.

I think the idea is that they study 500,000 people now and find out if there are any markers, indications that might be identifiable and as time goes on they continue to monitor our health. When groups of people have heart attacks etc - they look back to see if there were any common links early on that at the moment are not recognised as signs.

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Gayle God Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Relaxville Posts: 6,866 Blog Entries: 69 Liked: 13 times Rep Power: 2867	Re: UK Biobank The Government's Department of Health. The start of the letter says We are writing to ask for your help in studying the prevention and treatment of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, dementia, joint problems and many other serious diseases. I think the idea is that they study 500,000 people now and find out if there are any markers, indications that might be identifiable and as time goes on they continue to monitor our health. When groups of people have heart attacks etc - they look back to see if there were any common links early on that at the moment are not recognised as signs. __________________ The views expressed within this post are mine and mine alone.