Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Cohort Study (RURAL) Heart and Lung Study

Description

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) will serve as the site for the RURAL Study Coordinating Center, led by PI Vasan Ramachandran, MD. The primary function of the Study Coordinating Center (SCC) is to serve as an administrative liaison between all of the RURAL study's cores. The SCC schedules, facilitates, and hosts, all RURAL meetings including preparation for Observational Study Monitoring Board (OSMB) meetings, and maintains direct communication with the study's program officers at NHLBI. The SCC monitors the overall progress of RURAL and keeps all RURAL cores abreast of study updates through meetings, emails, newsletters. It also maintains the official RURAL website and serves as an administrator for investigators seeking to collaborate with RURAL through the submission of Ancillary Studies. The SCC will have no direct interaction with any participants, nor will it have access to identifiable data.

Conditions

Rural Health, Pulmonary Disease, Heart Diseases

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) will serve as the site for the RURAL Study Coordinating Center, led by PI Vasan Ramachandran, MD. The primary function of the Study Coordinating Center (SCC) is to serve as an administrative liaison between all of the RURAL study's cores. The SCC schedules, facilitates, and hosts, all RURAL meetings including preparation for Observational Study Monitoring Board (OSMB) meetings, and maintains direct communication with the study's program officers at NHLBI. The SCC monitors the overall progress of RURAL and keeps all RURAL cores abreast of study updates through meetings, emails, newsletters. It also maintains the official RURAL website and serves as an administrator for investigators seeking to collaborate with RURAL through the submission of Ancillary Studies. The SCC will have no direct interaction with any participants, nor will it have access to identifiable data.

RURAL Study Coordinating Center and Pulmonary Core

Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Cohort Study (RURAL) Heart and Lung Study

Condition
Rural Health
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Birmingham

University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Be a resident of specific counties in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi
  • * Have resided in the specific county for the past two years and plan to reside at the residence for the next two years
  • * Speak English or Spanish
  • * Currently incarcerated or institutionalized
  • * Currently in hospice care with a terminal illness and less than 6 month life expectancy
  • * Being actively treated for cancer

Ages Eligible for Study

25 Years to 64 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio,

Vasan Ramachandran, MD, STUDY_DIRECTOR, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Suzanne Judd, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Paul Targonski, MD PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Virginia

Study Record Dates

2025-04