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Riyadh Cohort
Long-running cardiometabolic screening cohort with stored biospecimens and targeted genetic, epigenetic and biomarker substudies.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Riyadh region primary-health-care centers and schools
- Project type
- Population cardiometabolic cohort and biobank
- Research domain
- Diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular risk and genomics-enabled biomarker research
- Years
- 2008–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- Recruitment cohorts span 2008-2019 and 2021-2023, and the stored biobank was used in peer-reviewed work published in 2024-2025.
- Status evidence date
- 2025-01-01
- Scale
- 10,220 people in two curated analytic cohorts; an earlier program description reported more than 17,000 screened/consented participants.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Saud University Center for Biomarkers of Chronic Diseases
- Partner organizations
- Saudi Ministry of Health
- Organism / population
- Consenting Saudi adults and children screened through Riyadh primary care and schools
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- serum and plasma biobank
- anthropometrics
- clinical chemistry
- targeted genotyping
- epigenetic assays
Data access
Controlled institutional biobank; public access terms not stated
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named continuing biobank/cohort with more than 10,000 participants and repeated genomics-enabled substudies.
Editorial note
Primarily a phenotyped biobank rather than a population-WGS program. The greater-than-17,000 historical screening figure and 10,220 curated cohort figure have different denominators and should not be added.
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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