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Abdishakur Abdulle (301726)

Abdullah Aljunaibi (4741476)

Abdullah Alnaeemi (4741482)

Abdulrahman Al Ali (4741524)

Aisha Al Hamiz (2550967)

Ann Schmidt (4741473)

Ayesha Al Dhaheri (4741497)

Ayesha Al Hosani (4741491)

Benjamin Hirsch (4741494)

Claire Inman (4741530)

Divya Galani (4741518)

Eiman Al Zaabi (4741512)

Fatima Al Maisary (4741479)

Fatma Al Maskari (4741467)

Fatme Al Anouti (4741488)

Habiba Alsafar (4253608)

Jamila Yaaqoub (4741500)

Jiyoung Ahn (23555)

Khaled Al Saedi (4741509)

Leila Wareth (4741515)

Marina Al Bastaki (4741503)

Mohamed El-Sadig (288798)

Mohammed Al-Houqani (319380)

Muna Haji (4741506)

Naima Oumeziane (4741521)

Omar El Shahawy (4741485)

Raghib Ali (319381)

Ravichandran Ramasamy (131074)

Richard Hayes (32740)

Scott Sherman (729543)

Syed M. Shah (281744)

Teeb Alsharid (4741470)

Thekra Al Zaabi (4741533)

Tim Sprosen (715520)

Tom Loney (3666568)

Tomas Kirchhoff (102401)

Wael Al Mahmeed (4741527)

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BACKGROUND: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is faced with a rapidly increasing burden of non-communicable diseases including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The UAE Healthy Future study is a prospective cohort designed to identify associations between risk factors and these diseases amongst Emiratis. The study will enroll 20,000 UAE nationals aged ≥18 years. Environmental and genetic risk factors will be characterized and participants will be followed for future disease events. As this was the first time a prospective cohort study was being planned in the UAE, a pilot study was conducted in 2015 with the primary aim of establishing the feasibility of conducting the study. Other objectives were to evaluate the implementation of the main study protocols, and to build adequate capacity to conduct advanced clinical laboratory analyses.METHODS: Seven hundred sixty nine UAE nationals aged ≥18 years were invited to participate voluntarily in the pilot study. Participants signed an informed consent, completed a detailed questionnaire, provided random blood, urine, and mouthwash samples and were assessed for a series of clinical measures. All specimens were transported to the New York University Abu Dhabi laboratories where samples were processed and analyzed for routine chemistry and hematology. Plasma, serum, and a small whole blood sample for DNA extraction were aliquoted and stored at -80 °C for future analyses.RESULTS: Overall, 517 Emirati men and women agreed to participate (68% response rate). Of the total participants, 495 (95.0%), 430 (82.2%), and 492 (94.4%), completed the questionnaire, physical measurements, and provided biological samples, respectively.CONCLUSIONS: The pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of recruitment and completion of the study protocols for the first large-scale cohort study designed to identify emerging risk factors for the major non-communicable diseases in the region

Abdulle, Abdishakur

Alnaeemi, Abdullah

Aljunaibi, Abdullah

Al Ali, Abdulrahman

Al Saedi, Khaled

Al Zaabi, Eiman

Oumeziane, Naima

Al Bastaki, Marina

Al-Houqani, Mohammed

Al Maskari, Fatma

Al Dhaheri, Ayesha

Shah, Syed M.

Loney, Tom

El-Sadig, Mohamed

Oulhaj, Abderrahim

Wareth, Leila Abdel

Al Mahmeed, Wael

Alsafar, Habiba

Hirsch, Benjamin

Al Anouti, Fatme

Yaaqoub, Jamila

Inman, Claire K.

Al Hamiz, Aisha

Al Hosani, Ayesha

Haji, Muna

Alsharid, Teeb

Al Zaabi, Thekra

Al Maisary, Fatima

Galani, Divya

Sprosen, Tim

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The UAE healthy future study: a pilot for a prospective cohort study of 20,000 United Arab Emirates nationals

Abdishakur Abdulle

Abdullah Alnaeemi

Abdullah Aljunaibi

Abdulrahman Al Ali

Khaled Al Saedi

Eiman Al Zaabi

Naima Oumeziane

Marina Al Bastaki

Mohammed Al-Houqani

Fatma Al Maskari

Ayesha Al Dhaheri

Syed M. Shah

Tom Loney

Mohamed El-Sadig

Abderrahim Oulhaj

Leila Abdel Wareth

Wael Al Mahmeed

Habiba Alsafar

Benjamin Hirsch

Fatme Al Anouti

Jamila Yaaqoub

Claire K. Inman

Aisha Al Hamiz

Ayesha Al Hosani

Muna Haji

Teeb Alsharid

Thekra Al Zaabi

Fatima Al Maisary

Divya Galani

Tim Sprosen

Omar El Shahawy

Jiyoung Ahn

Tomas Kirchhoff

Ravichandran Ramasamy

Ann Marie Schmidt

Richard Hayes

Scott Sherman

Raghib Ali

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Abstract Background The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is faced with a rapidly increasing burden of non-communicable diseases including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The UAE Healthy Future study is a prospective cohort designed to identify associations between risk factors and these diseases amongst Emiratis. The study will enroll 20,000 UAE nationals aged ≥18 years. Environmental and genetic risk factors will be characterized and participants will be followed for future disease events. As this was the first time a prospective cohort study was being planned in the UAE, a pilot study was conducted in 2015 with the primary aim of establishing the feasibility of conducting the study. Other objectives were to evaluate the implementation of the main study protocols, and to build adequate capacity to conduct advanced clinical laboratory analyses. Methods Seven hundred sixty nine UAE nationals aged ≥18 years were invited to participate voluntarily in the pilot study. Participants signed an informed consent, completed a detailed questionnaire, provided random blood, urine, and mouthwash samples and were assessed for a series of clinical measures. All specimens were transported to the New York University Abu Dhabi laboratories where samples were processed and analyzed for routine chemistry and hematology. Plasma, serum, and a small whole blood sample for DNA extraction were aliquoted and stored at −80 °C for future analyses. Results Overall, 517 Emirati men and women agreed to participate (68% response rate). Of the total participants, 495 (95.0%), 430 (82.2%), and 492 (94.4%), completed the questionnaire, physical measurements, and provided biological samples, respectively. Conclusions The pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of recruitment and completion of the study protocols for the first large-scale cohort study designed to identify emerging risk factors for the major non-communicable diseases in the region

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