Data Resource Profile: Understanding the patterns and determinants of health in South Asians-the South Asia Biobank

Peige Song; Ananya Gupta; Ian Y Goon; Mehedi Hasan; Sara Mahmood; Rajendra Pradeepa; Samreen Siddiqui; Gary S Frost; Dian Kusuma; Marisa Miraldo; Franco Sassi; Nick J Wareham; Sajjad Ahmed; Ranjit M Anjana; Soren Brage; Nita G Forouhi; Sujeet Jha; Anuradhani Kasturiratne; Prasad Katulanda; Khadija I Khawaja; Marie Loh; Malay K Mridha; Ananda R Wickremasinghe; Jaspal S Kooner; John C Chambers; South Asia Biobank. Remaining authors are listed at the end of the article

doi:10.1093/ije/dyab029

Data Resource Profile: Understanding the patterns and determinants of health in South Asians-the South Asia Biobank

Int J Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 9;50(3):717-718e. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyab029.

Authors

Peige Song^{1

2}, Ananya Gupta^{1

3}, Ian Y Goon¹, Mehedi Hasan⁴, Sara Mahmood⁵, Rajendra Pradeepa⁶, Samreen Siddiqui³, Gary S Frost⁷, Dian Kusuma⁸, Marisa Miraldo^{8

9}, Franco Sassi^{8

9}, Nick J Wareham¹⁰, Sajjad Ahmed¹¹, Ranjit M Anjana⁶, Soren Brage¹⁰, Nita G Forouhi¹⁰, Sujeet Jha³, Anuradhani Kasturiratne¹², Prasad Katulanda¹³, Khadija I Khawaja⁵, Marie Loh^{1

14}, Malay K Mridha⁴, Ananda R Wickremasinghe¹², Jaspal S Kooner^{15

16}, John C Chambers^{1

14}; South Asia Biobank. Remaining authors are listed at the end of the article

Collaborators

South Asia Biobank. Remaining authors are listed at the end of the article:
Polly Page, Wnurinham Silva, Garudam R Aarthi, Saira Afzal, Sophie E Day, Bridget A Holmes, Rajan Kamalesh, Elisa Pineda, Fred Hersch, Baldeesh K Rai, Malabika Sarker, Jonathan Valabhji

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
² School of Public Health, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
³ Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Max Super Speciality Hospital (Devki Devi Foundation), New Delhi, India.
⁴ Centre for Non-communicable Diseases and Nutrition (CNCDN), BRAC James P Grant of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Services Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
⁶ Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁸ Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Economics and Public Policy, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁰ MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
¹¹ Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Punjab, Pakistan.
¹² Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.
¹³ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
¹⁴ Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
¹⁵ Ealing Hospital, London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
¹⁶ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Asia / epidemiology
Asian People*
Biological Specimen Banks*
Humans
Risk Factors

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding