Tongji-Ezhou Study (TJEZ)

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Environmental Exposure; Diabetes; Obesity; Cardiovascular Diseases; Risk Factor, Cardiovascular; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Metabolic Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Dietary and environmental exposure (Observational study)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03845868

TJEZ2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

Tongji-Ezhou study (TJEZ) is a prospective cohort study launched at 2013 in EZhou city, Hubei province, with the goal of recruiting and assessing 10,000 individuals and then following them for at least 2 decades. In addition, blood samples would be collected every 3-5 years among 6000 of them to investigate the nutritional biomarkers and potential determinants of chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease.

Enrollment: 10,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• (i) permanent residence in Ezhou district (minimum of 9 months); (ii) written informed consent; (iii) age ≥ 20 years old at the time of enrolling in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• (i) with chemotherapy or radiotherapy for cancer and other severe diseases.

Trial design

10,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Egang hospital physical examination center

Treatment:

Other: Dietary and environmental exposure (Observational study)

Ezhou CDC physical examination center

Treatment:

Other: Dietary and environmental exposure (Observational study)