Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment across Europe
Studies
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The objective of BiomarCaRE is to assess the value of established and emerging biomarkers
for cardiovascular risk prediction.
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General Information
- Year created
- 2011
- Types of cohorts
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- Population cohort
- Patient/disease cohort
- Clinical trial
- Region
- Europe, Australia, Israel, Latin America, New Zeland, South Africa, United States of America.
- Setting
- International
- Funding
- The BiomarCaRE project was co-funded by the European Community´s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement N° HEALTH-F2-2011-278913.
- Criteria of cohort's to be included
- Disease cohorts: individuals with either angiographically proven stable coronary artery disease, mostly after myocardial infarction, or individuals presenting with suspected acute coronary syndrome. Clinical trials: subjects with coronary heart disease with or without acute coronary syndrome; subjects 50 years old who did not have preexisting cardiovascular disease or diabetes, and had a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol < 130 mg/dL and C-reactive protein ≥ 2.0 mg/L.
- Socio-environmental context
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- Environmental hazards
- Urbanization
Participants
Number of participants
- Total
- 300,000
Age range of the samples
- Minimum age
- 18
- Maximum age
- 150
Methodology for harmonization and integration
- Strategy of harmonization
- Ex-post
- Data processing methods
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- NA
- Integrative data analysis
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- Pooled analyses
- Software
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- NA
Number of cohorts
- Total
- 31
- With harmonized data
- 5
- Will more cohorts be harmonized?
Access
- Availability of metadata
- Availability of individual data