UK Blood Donor Cohorts (INTERVAL & COMPARE)
Initiatives
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To compare the effects of donating blood at different time intervals. Our goal is to find the optimum interval for which it is safe for different donors to give blood.
- Start Year
- 2012
- End Year
- 2014
- Funding
- NHS Blood and Transplant, National Institute for Health Research, UK Medical Research Council, and British Heart Foundation.
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.richarddollconsortium.org/search-the-studies/uk-blood-donor-cohorts-interval-compare
Visit The INTERVAL study
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- 6, 12, and 18 months of follow-up.
Marker Paper
Di Angelantonio, E., Thompson, S. G., Kaptoge, S., Moore, C., Walker, M., Armitage, J., ... & Ford, I. (2017). Efficiency and safety of varying the frequency of whole blood donation (INTERVAL): a randomised trial of 45 000 donors. The Lancet, 390(10110), 2360-2371.
PUBMED
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 45,263
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Recruited whole blood donors aged 18 years or older from 25 centres across England, UK.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.intervalstudy.org.uk/