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DR. OLD: No, you are right.
Let me go to your first point and that is
community involvement. NHLBI has in the past for our
epidemiological studies has large participation from
community involvement. We have a Strong Heart Study which
is with the American Indians and they are part of the
steering committee. They are part of the process of
deciding protocols. They are very active participants and
I think one of the reasons that this is in here is due to
having special communities like that involved already in
our epidemiological studies. We expect them to have also
input in our genetic studies.
We are currently in the process of setting up a
study exclusively in African Americans in cardiovascular
disease. They are also part of the process of defining the
protocols, the study cohort, and on the steering committee.
So NHLBI has already taken that step in terms of including
the community in setting up a study and involvement.
I think on some of our studies where we are
looking at a much -- we deal pretty much exclusively with
complex diseases on -- not exclusively but a large number
or things that are complex diseases and who exactly is the
community of people with hypertension and where do you go
to get community involvement and how do you study