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SUMMARY:Developing blood-based longitudinal studies: the challenge and opp
 ortunity - Professor Sarah Lewington\, Nuffield Department of Population H
 ealth\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Spencer Keene
DESCRIPTION:At current trends\, it is estimated that >40M people worldwide
  will die prematurely (<70 years of age) in 2030\, and over half of these 
 deaths will be due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with the majority o
 ccurring in LMICs. In response to this\, an aim of the United Nations 2015
  Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is “By 2030\, reduce by one third 
 premature mortality from NCDs through prevention and treatment”.8 Althou
 gh existing longitudinal population studies have characterised some of the
  major causes of premature death from NCDs\, these have mostly been conduc
 ted in high income countries (HICs). The few large studies (with several h
 undred thousand participants) in LMICs have shown that the effect of disea
 se risk factors can vary greatly across populations\, with important impli
 cations for disease aetiology and global health. Hence large longitudinal 
 studies in diverse populations are required to generate valuable evidence 
 on the importance of the major risk factors for NCDs in different parts of
  the world.
LOCATION:Heart and Lung Research Institute (R.100) or Virtually via Zoom: 
 https://sanger.zoom.us/j/97135269370?pwd=YgsqXLPVYzO9oYY5CObjlWxNPtmBus.1
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