In 2010 Dr Peter Craig received a letter sent by the Scottish chief medical officer to randomly selected middle-aged people, asking if he was interested in participating in UK Biobank, a revolutionary new research programme aiming to help scientists to understand why some people but not others succumb to diseases such as dementia, heart disease, arthritis and cancer. The aim was to eventually stamp them out.
Craig signed up. Soon afterwards he spent a couple of hours at a nearby centre answering various health questionnaires and submitting urine, blood and saliva samples to join the 15 million that UK Biobank has collected to date – enough to fill 91 bath tubs. Over subsequent years he filled in various online questionnaires about diet and lifestyle.
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