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UAE Healthy Future Study
Prospective cohort designed to investigate diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and interacting genetic, lifestyle, and environmental determinants in Emiratis.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- National recruitment of Emirati adults; coordinated from Abu Dhabi
- Project type
- prospective population cohort and biobank
- Research domain
- population health, chronic disease, genetics, and microbiome
- Years
- 2015–
- Lifecycle status
- active longitudinal follow-up
- Status basis
- NYU Abu Dhabi reported nearly 15,000 phase-one participants in November 2023 and launched a second phase recalling 5,000 participants for deeper genetic, microbiome, and physiological profiling.
- Status evidence date
- 2023-11-01
- Scale
- Target 20,000; nearly 15,000 recruited by 2023; phase two plans deep recall of 5,000 participants. Biobank includes blood, urine, mouthwash/DNA, questionnaire, and linked health records.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- New York University Abu Dhabi
- Partner organizations
- Tamkeen · UAE healthcare and academic partners
- Organism / population
- Emirati adults aged 18 years and older
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- biospecimens
- genotyping/genomics
- microbiome
- clinical phenotypes
- questionnaires
- linked health records
- longitudinal follow-up
Data access
Collaborative/controlled cohort access; no open individual-level release identified.
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Large, reusable national prospective cohort with biobanking and explicit genomics/microbiome components.
Editorial note
Independent observational cohort; participants may overlap demographically with EGP but recruitment and objectives are distinct.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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