For the next thirty years, 10,000 employees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will likely be tracked for most of their working lives as part of an initiative to track an array of health-vitals and genes. The over-arching aim is to be able to build a medical cohort to give long-term perspective on the malaises that affect Indians and determine if such a databank can be used to help with predicting, say, the onset of diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
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Unknown title20 22:34 IST Updated: August 29, 2020 22:38 IST Aims to gauge long term health parameters of 10,000 staff. Share Article 0 PRINT A A A Aims to gauge long term health parameters of 10,000 staff. <span>For the next thirty years, 10,000 employees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will likely be tracked for most of their working lives as part of an initiative to track an array of health-vitals and genes. The over-arching aim is to be able to build a medical cohort to give long-term perspective on the malaises that affect Indians and determine if such a databank can be used to help with predicting, say, the onset of diabetes or cardiovascular disease. For starters, said officials, the CSIR, which has 38 subsidiary labs across the country, has collected blood samples from around 2,000 employees to check for coronavirus (COVID-19) anti Summary
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