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Kuwait Healthy Life Study – Oral Microbiome Phase 4
Recontacts a longitudinal cohort first assembled across 2012, 2014 and 2019 to test oral-microbiome and inflammatory predictors of metabolic syndromes.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Kuwait longitudinal cohort
- Project type
- Longitudinal microbiome cohort
- Research domain
- Metabolic disease and oral microbiome
- Years
- 2025–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- KFAS lists the Phase 4 project active from 2025-04-04.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- Planned follow-up of 1,000 participants with saliva, blood, clinical and anthropometric data.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Dasman Diabetes Institute
- Partner organizations
- Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences
- Organism / population
- Participants from the Kuwait Healthy Life Study
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- oral microbiome sequencing
- blood biomarkers
- clinical data
- machine learning
Data access
Controlled/institutional; no public accession stated
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Current genomic cohort with an explicit size, longitudinal history and official funder record.
Editorial note
Phase 4 extends rather than replaces the Kuwait Healthy Life Study; count participants once across phases.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
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