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Assessing the benefits of cholesterol lowering drugs
Recruiting thousands of people to a large scale statins clinical trial
- Treatment and prevention
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Updating the understanding of the risks of diabetes
Using GP data to learn more about diabetes
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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Investigating the national uptake of emergency operations for heart attack
Using registry data to examine rates of emergency coronary intervention
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
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How does lifestyle affect health?
Using patient data to understand the impact of diet on health
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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Understanding the impacts of genes, lifestyle and environment
UK Biobank stores health data on 500,000 volunteers to provide a resource for researchers
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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Prescribing statins to men without a history of heart attacks
Demonstrating the health and cost benefits of statin use
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
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Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Collecting self reported data to better understand the lives of people with MS
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
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Investigating trends in diabetes
Understanding why diabetes rates vary between ethnic groups
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
- Policy