Blood Collection for Research Related to Certain Diseases Involving Blood Vessels

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Sickle Cell Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00047996

030015

03-H-0015

Details and patient eligibility

About

The collection of human specimens from both patients and healthy volunteers is necessary for the development of laboratory assays to further basic and clinical research studies. This protocol defines the purposes for which specimens will be collected and establishes general conditions under which sample collection will be performed.

Full description

The collection of human specimens from both patients and healthy volunteers is necessary for the development of laboratory assays to further basic and clinical research studies. This protocol defines the purposes for which specimens will be collected and establishes general conditions under which sample collection will be performed.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Males or females of age 18 years and older can be included in the study.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Individuals without sickle cell disease or other chronic anemias who wish to donate blood will be excluded if the hemoglobin is less than 10 g/dL for women or less than 12g/dL for men.

Individuals with sickle cell disease or other chronic anemias will be excluded from donating blood samples if the hemoglobin is less than 6 g/dL.

A participant s most recent CBC result, obtained in the past 12 months, will be used to determine eligibility.

There are no exclusion criteria for participants donating urine.

Trial design

2,000 participants in 1 patient group

Group1

Description:

Clinical Center Patients, Healthy Volunteers