{"id":8285,"date":"2012-03-30T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2012-03-30T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:13:08","slug":"our-participation-in-uk-biobank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8285","title":{"rendered":"Our participation in UK Biobank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible snapshot of the health and lifestyles of 500,000 Britons \u2013 including 26,000 people with diabetes and 50,000 with joint disorders, 41,000 teetotallers, and 11,000 heart attack patients \u2013 is now available for medical\u00a0research. With more than 1,000 separate pieces of information already available on volunteers aged 40-69 when they joined the project, UK Biobank has amassed one of the most detailed large-scale health resources ever, with the goal of improving the health of future generations. You can find further information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukbiobank.ac.uk\/2012\/03\/uk-biobank-opens-for-research\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are two of the 500,000 who have participated in UK Biobank. It is almost two years since we underwent all the tests involved and I blogged about the experience<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2476\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible snapshot of the health and lifestyles of 500,000 Britons \u2013 including 26,000 people with diabetes and 50,000 with joint disorders, 41,000 teetotallers, and 11,000 heart attack patients \u2013 is now available for medical\u00a0research. With more than 1,000 separate pieces of information already available on volunteers aged 40-69 when they joined the project, UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts","category-social-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}