Parelsnoer Project

Diabetes Pearl: creating an infrastructure to find risk factors, biomarkers and genetic determinants for complications.

Aim project: Type 2 diabetes is associated with considerable comorbidity and severe complications, which reduce quality of life of the patients and require high levels of healthcare. The Diabetes Pearl is a large cohort of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, covering different geographical areas in the Netherlands. The aim of the study is to create a research infrastructure that will allow the study of risk factors, including biomarkers and genetic determinants for severe diabetes complications.

€20.000.000,00

Role of research group in this project:  Coordination of the Diabetes Pearl, data collection and scientific involvement

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