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，研究石油泄漏对不同响应人群的潜在健康影响。在2012财年，海湾研究（海湾长期随访研究）继续其招募工作。截至2012年9月5日，海湾研究已经完成了28,244次电话访谈和6,747次亲自访问，并收集了生物标本。生物标本在适当的地方使用液氮储存在长期储存设施中。

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 2012,the GuLF STUDY (Gulf Long-term Follow-Up Study) continued its recruitment efforts. As of September 5, 2012, the GuLF STUDY has completed over 28,244 telephone interviews and over 6,747 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 recruiting study participants into the GuLF STUDY. The study began recruiting Spanish-speaking and Vietnamese-speaking participants in summer 2012. dditionally, NIEHS investigators are working to obtain all of the available environmental and occupational exposure monitoring data in order to perform an accurate exposure assessment on the study population. Ongoing statistical modeling will lead to the development of cleanup-task exposure matirices that will will allow assignment of exposure estimates for volatile compounds and other exposures related to oilspill cleanup. A substudy assessing current exposures to volatile compounds and metals will begin collecting blood samples and environmental monitoring data in September 2012. Approaches and preliminary results from exposure characterization efforts were presented at several international meetings.