Confirmation of Self-Reported Incident ALS Cases in the AARP-Diet and Health (AARP-DH) Cohort

NCT00377351 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 99990624706-E-N247
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 21
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rare but rapidly progressive neurological disease that often results in death within a few years after the diagnosis. The incidence of ALS in the US is approximately 2.0/100,000/year and is age dependent. Very few epidemiological studies have investigated the causes of ALS. Last year, Dr. Alberto Ascherio at Harvard School of Public Health successfully obtained a RO1 grant to investigate the risk of ALS by documenting ALS cases in five well-established large prospective cohorts: The Nurses' Health Study (NHS), the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort (CPS IIN), the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC), and the NIH-American Association of Retired Persons Diet and Health Study (AARP-DH). The primary aims of this grant are to prospectively clarify the associations between diet and smoking and risk of ALS in this to date the largest epidemiological study on ALS. Incident ALS cases will be documented via biennial questionnaires in the first three cohorts. While mortality data will be obtained in the MEC and AARP-DH cohorts by searching the National Death Index (NDI) Plus, it is also desirable to identify surviving incident cases in these two cohorts. The objective of this specific proposal is to ascertain the self-reported incident ALS cases from the AARP-DH study and obtain consent for medical release following the procedures set up for Parkinson's disease (PD) cases in the currently approved Parkinson's Genes and Environment (PAGE) Study IRB approval #06-E-N093. The confirmed ALS cases may be analyzed as part of the RO1 project. We expect to identify 300 self-reported ALS cases from the AARP cohort. Detailed analytic plans will be coordinated with Dr. Ascherio.

Conditions

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Keywords

Public Health; Elderly Population; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Exposure; Lifestyle

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 50 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• This study will be conducted within the infrastructure of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study; every participant in the AARP cohort self-reporting an ALS diagnosis will be eligible for the current investigation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): lead

Study Sites (1)

NIEHS, Research Triangle Park

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, United States

Location

Related Publications (3)

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  PMID: 8757041 BACKGROUND

• Kamel F, Umbach DM, Lehman TA, Park LP, Munsat TL, Shefner JM, Sandler DP, Hu H, Taylor JA. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lead, and genetic susceptibility: polymorphisms in the delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase and vitamin D receptor genes. Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Aug;111(10):1335-9. doi: 10.1289/ehp.6109.

  PMID: 12896855 BACKGROUND

• Kamel F, Umbach DM, Munsat TL, Shefner JM, Hu H, Sandler DP. Lead exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Epidemiology. 2002 May;13(3):311-9. doi: 10.1097/00001648-200205000-00012.

  PMID: 11964933 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Neurodegenerative Diseases

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Spinal Cord Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Motor Neuron Disease; TDP-43 Proteinopathies; Neuromuscular Diseases; Proteostasis Deficiencies; Metabolic Diseases; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Sponsor Type: NIH

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 15, 2006
• First Posted: September 18, 2006
• Study Start: September 11, 2006
• Study Completion: August 3, 2010
• Last Updated: July 2, 2017

Record last verified: 2010-08-03

Locations

US (1)