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Christchurch study awarded $4 million to continue policy-shaping work.
A Christchurch longitudinal study that has informed New Zealand social policy for more than 30 years has received $4 million in funding from the Health Research Council.
The Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) has documented the progress of more than 1200 people from their birth until the age of 35. The $4,363,673 HRC programme grant will allow Associate Professor John Horwood and his team to comprehensively record and analyse participants’ situations up to age of 40. They will study issues such as the long-term mental health consequences of exposure to the Canterbury earthquakes, and the long-term consequences of being the subject of maltreatment in childhood.
Associate Professor Horwood says the funding will enable the continuation of a number of ongoing lines of research into the factors influencing individual health and wellbeing over the life course.
Four other researchers from the University of Otago’s Christchurch campus won HRC funding in its annual major funding round announced today.
Associate
Professor Chris Pemberton: A new test to predict those at
risk of future heart attacks and potential
mortality.
Associate Professor Pemberton and his
team have discovered a protein in the blood that shows
promise as a way to identify those patients with chest pain
at increased risk of mortality and heart attacks in the near
future. This is a group of people not easily identified by
current tests. With the support of a $1,164,059 HRC project
grant, Associate Professor Pemberton will lead an
international set of studies to determine the effectiveness
of this protein to profile serious future cardiovascular
risk in patients with chest pain.
Professor Martin
Kennedy and Associate Professor Matt Doogue: genes and
serious adverse reactions to common
drugs.
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) cause a
great deal of illness and death. It is likely many have
genetic origins. With a $1,186,142 HRC project grant,
Professor Kennedy and Associate Professor Doogue will
clarify how genes contribute to adverse reactions to drugs
used in the treatment of common illnesses like hypertension,
acid reflux, and depression. This team will also develop a
biobank to collect and store samples from patients suffering
a wide range of serious ADRs, so genetic underpinnings of
many such ADRs can be examined.
Professor Richard
Troughton: Irregular heart rhythm and its associated
risks.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular
heart rhythm that is common and associated with impaired
heart function, stroke and increased risk of hospitalisation
or death. Recent evidence suggests certain medications used
to treat blood pressure and heart failure, by blocking
mineralocorticoid receptors, may prevent the development of
AF. With a $1,087,437 HRC project grant, Professor Troughton
and his team will test whether an oral medication called
spironolactone can block mineralocorticoid receptors in an
18-month trial in patients with pacemakers.
Dr
Cameron Lacey: Maori and increased incidence of bipolar
disorder.
There is evidence Maori have
increased prevalence and worse outcomes with bipolar
disorder. But little is known about the factors contributing
to these disparities or strategies to reduce them. With a
$1,181,031 HRC project grant, Dr Lacey and his team will use
routinely-collected national data to identify detailed
patterns of health service use for Maori with bipolar
disorder as well as potential factors leading to disparities
in outcomes. The team will also conduct focus groups with
healthcare providers and Maori patients and develop best
practice guidelines and strategies for change to address
areas of unmet
need.
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