A cardiovascular risk research project is looking for volunteers in Seville

The Biobank of the Public Health System of Andalusia has launched a dissemination campaign to call for collaboration among the population of Seville. Currently, volunteers are needed who can participate in a research project led by Inés Pineda, a scientist at the Progreso Foundation andHealth.

Specifically, the project that is currently underway aims to understand how lipids and hormones alter cardiovascular risk in women and, in particular, in the stage of menopause. More than 600 volunteers have already participated in the line of research that leads to Cado Pineda in Cabimer, but citizen collaboration is still necessary, soparticularly in the city of Seville.

Thus, women and men are sought who do not currently receive hormonal treatments (contraceptives are allowed) and who do not suffer from autoimmune diseases or other pathologies that compromise the health of the donor, including cardiovascular diseases. The donation is made through a blood draw, from which the professionals of theBiobanks that process the samples are responsible for extracting RNA (a temporary copy of DNA) to study gene expression; serum to study circulating hormones and metabolites, as well as cells of the immune system.

How to participate and become a donor

Citizen collaboration is fundamental for the development of this and other research projectscion. For this reason, the Biobank of the Public Health System of Andalusia has a Registry of Sample Donors for Biomedical Research that allows the research community to advance in the knowledge of diseases to improve their diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. To participate, simply call 958894669; enter the website www.soydonanteparainvestigacion.es; or send an email to registro.donantes.csalud@juntadeandalucia.es

The research carried out by this scientist from the Progreso y Salud Foundation, an entity under the Ministry of Health, Presidency and Emergencies, is especially novel, since it addresses the particularity of the female gender in the face of these diseases in a period of her life such as menopause orperimenopause. In the opinion of Pineda, who carries out this work together with his team at Cabimer, "cardiovascular diseases, traditionally considered diseases of men, are also the first cause of death among women around the world, ahead of others more associated with them such as breast cancer or osteoporosis. Despite this, women are stilllittle studied in research, "he says.