Gulf Longitudinal Follow-up (GuLF) Study

NIEHS正在领导一项美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的长期研究，研究石油泄漏对各种响应人群的潜在健康影响。在2014财年，海湾研究（海湾长期随访研究）完成了其基线招募工作。GuLF研究总共完成了32，608次电话采访和11，193次亲自访问，收集了生物标本。生物样本储存在适当情况下使用液氮的长期储存设施中。 NIEHS研究人员正在积极进行GuLF研究的后续访谈。此外，NIEHS研究人员正在设计和实施GuLF研究的生物医学监测子队列的临床访视。数据收集工作预计将于2014年秋季开始。 与此同时，NIEHS研究人员正在努力评估所有可用的环境和职业暴露监测数据，以更全面地描述研究人群的暴露特征。正在进行的统计建模将导致制定特定于清理任务的接触矩阵，从而可以对挥发性化合物和与溢油清理有关的其他接触进行估计。在国家和国际会议上介绍了接触特征描述工作的方法和初步结果。 基线数据的清理和分析已经开始，我们将在科学会议上报告发现，并将结果撰写在同行评审的期刊上发表。

NIEHS is leading a National Institutes of Health (NIH) long term study looking at the potential health effects of the oil spill in various responder populations. During FY 2014, the GuLF STUDY (Gulf Long-term Follow-Up Study) completed its baseline recruitment efforts. In total, the GuLF STUDY has completed 32,608 telephone interviews and 11,193 in-person visits where biospecimens are collected. Biospecimens are banked in a long-term storage facility using liquid nitrogen where appropriate. NIEHS investigators are actively conducting the follow-up interviews for the GuLF STUDY. Additionally, NIEHS investigators are working on designing and implementing the clinical visit for the Biomedical Surveillance Sub-cohort of the GuLF STUDY. Data collection is expected to begin in the fall of 2014. In the meantime, NIEHS investigators are working to evaluate all of the available environmental and occupational exposure monitoring data in order to more completely characterize exposures in the study population. Ongoing statistical modeling will lead to the development of cleanup-task specific exposure matrices that will allow assignment of exposure estimates for volatile compounds and other exposures related to oil spill cleanup. Approaches and preliminary results from exposure characterization efforts were presented at national and international meetings. Cleaning and analysis of the baseline data has begun and we will be reporting findings at scientific meetings and writing up the results for publication in peer-reviewed journals.