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Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (CEU)

The CEU is an internationally renowned centre of excellence for the study of the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease.  The CEU addresses strategic areas of unmet need with impact on scientific understanding, healthcare and industry; this involves improving knowledge of causal risk factors, medicines development, public health interventions, population screening and global health.

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Global Health

In 2016, Cambridge University’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology partnered with three research centres operating across rural, urban and slum sites in Bangladesh to launch the BangladEsh Longitudinal Investigation of Emerging Vascular Events (BELIEVE) study: a large-scale prospective cohort investigation.

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DNA - variations are used for risk scores

Open-science resources

Polygenic risk scores show promise for preventative medicine and improving health by targeting preventative treatments or earlier screening to those at the highest risk.

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Clinical Epidemiology

Genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease and high-dimensional traits Genetic discovery: Our main focus is around the identification of genetic variation linked with coronary disease and related phenotypes using customised SNP arrays. Current efforts in this area include the 50,000-participant...

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Health Data Science

Overview Our health data science research is at the forefront of big data and epidemiology, addressing key population health questions that may beneficially impact the health and well-being of individuals . Our multidisciplinary team brings together a rich blend of expertise in mathematics...

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Molecular Epidemiology

The CEU has a major focus on studying domains of molecular traits of relevance to CVD and other common, complex diseases, including transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics/lipidomics and haematological traits. By conducting large-scale genetic discovery analyses, we can understand the genetic...

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Systems Genomics

Technological advances have continued to drive the study of biology towards the statistical and computational sciences. We are now able to differentiate and quantify biomolecules at levels previously unimaginable, allowing us to study their interactions and relationships to health and disease in an...

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