About this trial
The Health for Hungary (H4H) study collects blood samples and corresponding health data to investigate healthy aging and health-to-disease transitions in middle-aged and elderly participants.
Indications Studied:
Apparently healthy, symptom-free participants are enrolled and followed up to study the onset of new-onset diseases with special emphasis on non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Study Design:
Single-country, multicenter, prospective, longitudinal survey.
Objectives:
The study aims to establish reference ranges of blood parameters using routine clinical blood tests and high-information-content methods, including proteomics, metabolomics and the so-called infrared molecular fingerprinting.
The study also aims to identify novel biomarkers of major non-communicable diseases, including atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Signed informed consent form (ICF) of the study.
Age > 40 years.
Willingness to fill in the study questionnaire.
No clinically relevant symptoms as assessed by the investigator, subjects with existing medical conditions may be eligible given that they are symptom free and that full treatment of the condition is medically confirmed.
Disqualifiers
Self-reported pregnancy (no test).
Indications of clinically relevant medical conditions in self-reported healthy subjects.
Self-reported symptom-free HIV, HCV and HBV infections. If HIV, HBV or HCV serology test is done and any of them are positive, the subject will be considered a screen failure.
Any conditions preventing blood-draw.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Not listed
Trial groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Center for Molecular Fingerprinting Research Nonprofit LLC
Lead sponsor
Szeged University
Collaborator
Ludwig-Maximilians - University of Munich
Collaborator
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Collaborator
Technical University of Munich
Collaborator
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Collaborator