Relatively Healthy Male Veterans Observed Over Time to See What Types of Diseases Develop



Status:Active, not recruiting
Conditions:Healthy Studies
Therapuetic Areas:Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:50 - Any
Updated:3/28/2019
Start Date:January 1, 2002
End Date:January 1, 2021

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The purpose of this study is to gather a mixed racial group of relatively healthy male
Veterans (for example, White, African-American, and Hispanic), who are at least 50 years of
age. These men will be followed to see what types of diseases they develop and to determine
if racial differences in lifestyle, blood test results, or genes are related to the types of
diseases that are found. Diseases of particular interest are prostate cancer, other cancers,
cardiovascular disease (for example, heart attacks and stroke), high blood pressure and
diabetes. The group to be followed will consist of about 16,000 men recruited from about 40
VA Medical Centers across the country. Each man will be followed for at least five years
depending on when he enters the study.

The purpose of this study is to gather a mixed racial group of relatively healthy male
Veterans (for example, White, African-American, and Hispanic), who are at least 50 years of
age. These men will be followed to see what types of diseases they develop and to determine
if racial differences in lifestyle, blood test results, or genes are related to the types of
diseases that are found. Diseases of particular interest are prostate cancer, other cancers,
cardiovascular disease (for example, heart attacks and stroke), high blood pressure and
diabetes. The group to be followed will consist of about 16,000 men recruited from about 40
VA Medical Centers across the country. Each man will be followed for at least five years
depending on when he enters the study.

Participants are asked to complete a set of forms to provide a brief medical history,
demographics, information on lifestyle such as physical activities, smoking, and drinking,
information on diet, and information on quality of life.

Subjects will be seen on a biannual basis with follow-up telephone interviews conducted
during the intervening years. Follow-up telephone interviews will be conducted at the MAVERIC
Call Center while follow-up clinic visits will take place at each SELECT site. In addition,
VA clinical and administrative databases will be used to augment follow-up and confirm
reported events.

During follow-up visits, participants will be asked whether they experienced any medical
events since the last study visit, with information on specific diagnoses including prostate
cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, other cancers, stroke, myocardial infarction,
hypertension, diabetes mellitus, kidney disease, chronic prostatitis, and benign prostatic
hypertrophy. Confirmation of self-reported diagnosis will be made by an examination of
discharge summaries, medical records, and available diagnostic and laboratory information by
an end-points committee.

Recruitment for this observational cohort will proceed in parallel with recruitment for
SELECT and can use SELECT staff and resources with very little additional burden in cost or
staff time.

Inclusion Criteria:

- relatively healthy male Veterans

- at least 50 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

- Life expectancy of at least 5 yrs
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Hines, Illinois 60141
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Hines, IL
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Huntington, West Virginia 25704
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Huntington, WV
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Kansas City, Missouri 64128
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Kansas City, MO
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Loma Linda, California 92357
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Loma Linda, CA
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Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417
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Minneapolis, MN
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Mountain Home, Tennessee 37684
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Mountain Home, TN
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Northport, New York 11768
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Northport, NY
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Syracuse, New York 13210
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Syracuse, NY
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