Testing the predictive ability of blood based novel biomarkers for cardiovascular outcomes in UK Biobank: a nationwide cohort study of > 500k people

Type: Heart

Grant holder: Professor Naveed Sattar, et al., University of Glasgow

Amount Awarded: £73,064 over 18 months

Year: 2016 - Ongoing

In UK Biobank, a remarkable study of 500,000 people, blood tests might help detect early risk of heart attack and strokes, and other important diseases. The researchers will investigate to...

SoSTART: Start or STop Anticoagulants Randomised Trial

Type: Heart, Stroke

Grant holder: Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, et al., University of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £89,909 over two years

Year: 2016 - Ongoing

Blood-thinning drugs like warfarin are very effective for preventing stroke in people with an irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation (AF).  However, it is not known whether blood-thinning drugs are...

Secondary prevention after stroke: can we do better? A novel national linkage of stroke registry and dispensing data

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Dr. Mary Joan Macleod et al., Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow

Amount Awarded: £77,155 over two years

Year: 2016 - Ongoing

Patients who have a stroke are at risk of having a further stroke or coronary event.  Medicines to prevent this are not always given, perhaps because of patient frailty or...

POSITIF: Post-Stroke Intervention Trial in Fatigue. A Randomised Multicentre Trial of a Brief Cognitive-behavioural Intervention plus Information Alone for the Treatment of Post-Stroke Fatigue

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Professor Gillian Mead, et al., Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £89,296 over two years six months

Year: 2016 - Ongoing

Tiredness is common for people after a stroke.  It stops people doing things they enjoy.  The researchers have developed a ‘talking therapy’ – six meetings with a psychologist with two...

Cardiac biOMarkers in Patients with Aortic StenosiS (COMPASS)

Type: Heart

Grant holder: Dr. Atul Anand and Dr. Nicholas Mills, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £118,544 over two years

Year: 2015 - Ongoing

Aortic stenosis, often causing chest pain and breathlessness, is a common narrowing of a heart valve, but there are complex issues surrounding how best to treat it. While valve replacement...

Improving risk prediction of cardiovascular disease in type 1 diabetes in Scotland

Type: Heart

Grant holder: Professor Helen Colhoun and H. Looker, Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee

Amount Awarded: £89,419 over 18 months

Year: 2015 - Ongoing

Type 1 diabetes causes increased heart disease and stroke (CVD) risk, but this is not equally the case in all patients. Some people develop heart disease or stroke at young...

Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive mobile phone application: a randomised controlled trial

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Dr. Lorna Paul, et al., University of Glasgow

Amount Awarded: £89,999 over three years

Year: 2015 - Ongoing

Stroke survivors are less physically active, leading to health problems and risk of further stroke.  STARFISH is a mobile phone app where people, in groups of four, are represented by...

Randomised Control Trial of a Smart Phone based Event Recorder for Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Palpitations and Pre-Syncope

Type: Heart

Grant holder: Dr. Matt Reed, et al., Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £23,056 over 21 months

Year: 2015 - Ongoing

Palpitations (noticeable pounding, fluttering or irregular heart beat) and pre-syncope (near blackout) are common Emergency Department problems sometimes due to abnormal cardiac rhythm. This is difficult to diagnose as examination...

Streaming Video to Augment Decision Support for Scottish Ambulance Service Treating COPD and OHCA in Edinburgh

Type: Chest, Heart

Grant holder: Dr. Gareth Clegg, University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £48,090 over 18 months.

Year: 2014 - Ongoing

Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) frontline paramedics need to be ready to face whatever medical emergencies may arise in the city of Edinburgh in all environments, day or night, and without...

Improving Our Assessment of Pre-Stroke Cognition, Mood, and Function

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Dr. Terry Quinn et al. University of Glasgow

Amount Awarded: £15,000 over one year

Year: 2016 - Finished

Physical and psychological problems are common after stroke. People with emotional, memory or physical problems after a stroke may have had problems prior to the stroke but these were never...

The SaeboGlove: Implementation of Novel Rehabilitaiton and Functional Aid for Upper Limb Weakness After Acute Stroke.

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Dr. Jesse Dawson and Miss Jen Alexander, University and Glasgow / NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Amount Awarded: £10,659 over 6 months.

Year: 2016 - Finished

The SaeboGlove is a new rehabilitation aid for people with arm weakness. It is worn on the weak hand of a patient with weakness after stroke. It assists the hand...

Profiling of extra-cellular vesicle microRNAs to identify novel cardiac injury biomarkers

Type: Chest

Grant holder: Dr. James Dear, Dr. P. Henrikson and Dr. M. Bailey, University of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £81,567 over one year

Year: 2015 - Finished

Currently, diagnosis of a heart attack requires a blood test taken 12 hours after the onset of chest pain.  The researchers will investigate new markers found in the blood, microRNAs,...

Development and validation of a short form for the Stroke Impact Scale

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Dr. Terence Quinn, R. Fulton, M. Peters, M. Ali and K. Lees. Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Amount Awarded: £14,252 over one year

Year: 2014 - Finished

Questionnaires for measuring quality of life in stroke are available, for example the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS).  To ensure that SIS captures all relevant details, it can take a long...

Childhood asthma prevalence in 2014 – how and why has this changed over the past 50 years?

Type: Chest

Grant holder: Dr. Steve Turner, G. Devereux, N. Tagiyeva and L. Aucott. Child Health, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

Amount Awarded: £59,965 over one year

Year: 2014 - Finished

The Aberdeen Schools Asthma Survey (ASA) are repeated surveys over the longest period anywhere in the UK, and among the longest anywhere around the world.  The percentage of children with...

Setting Scottish stroke services in an international context

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Professor Peter Langhorne, O. Wu, M. MacLeod, M. O’Donnell and M. Dennis. Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Glasgow.

Amount Awarded: £47,758 over one year

Year: 2014 - Finished

Stroke services in Scotland have developed substantially over the last 20 years, and are undergoing continuous quality monitoring.  However, the researchers do not have a clear idea of how Scottish...

The Association Between Blood Pressure and the Different Pathological Types of Stroke in UK Biobank

Type: Heart, Stroke

Grant holder: Dr. Rebecca Woodfield, Western General Hospital

Amount Awarded: £85,014 over 18 months

Year: 2014 - Finished

My project will use data from the UK Biobank, a detailed study of 500,000 volunteers, to improve our understanding of the relationships between different measures of blood pressure (BP) and...

Predictors of long-term cognitive impairment, dementia and disability after lacunar stroke

Type: Stroke

Grant holder: Professor Joanna Wardlaw, V. Cvoro, M. Dennis, S. Makin and I. Deary. University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital.

Amount Awarded: £75,815 over two years

Year: 2014 - Finished

Lacunar strokes are common, small, not usually fatal, but less well-studied than other types of stroke.  Up to a third of these patients may have difficulty thinking, or even dementia,...

CHSS Fellowship Award 2013: Can bacterial load define chest infections in bronchiectasis?

Type: Chest

Grant holder: Dr Manjit Sidhu (Supervisor: Dr Adam Hill); Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £119,085 over two years

Year: 2013 - Finished

An obstructive lung disease, bronchiectasis is a common long-term condition caused by permanent damage to the airways. Patients suffer with recurrent cough, sputum production and frequent infections. Antibiotics can help...

Optimisation of pre-hospital resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using a novel method of resuscitation analysis to facilitate training and performance evaluation

Type: Heart

Grant holder: Dr Richard Lyon, Drs Clarke and Clegg; Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £88,007 over three years

Year: 2013 - Finished

Surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), brought on by a heart attack, depends on high quality resuscitation before the patient reaches hospital. Such treatment is highly complex and requires specific...

Is childhood wheezy bronchitis an early determinant of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? A longitudinal study

Type: Chest

Grant holder: Dr Graham Douglas, Professor Devereux, Drs Turner, Tagiyeva and Fielding; Chest Clinic, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Amount Awarded: £89,942 over two years

Year: 2013 - Finished

In what promises to be the longest-running research of its kind in the world, this Aberdeen-based team is examining evidence of whether children who have episodes of wheezing illness during...

Metabolic Imaging in Carotid Atherosclerosis (MICA Study)

Type: Heart

Grant holder: Dr Scott Semple, Mr Vesey, Dr Mirsadraee, Miss Richards, Miss McBride, Mr Chalmers, Dr Dweck and Mr Gray; University of Edinburgh

Amount Awarded: £50,722 over two years

Year: 2013 - Finished

Many heart attacks and strokes are caused by the common condition of atherosclerosis – hardening of the arteries. New ways of imaging this disease, using PET and MRI scanning, are...

An investigation of the role of thrombin generation as a marker of increased risk of thromboembolic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation

Type: Heart, Stroke

Grant holder: Dr Catherine Bagot, Dr Tait, Mrs. Leishman and Dr McMahon; Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Amount Awarded: £31,560 over two years

Year: 2013 - Finished

Assessing the predictive value of quantitative high throughput NMR metabolomic analysis for CVD events in a major diabetes trial: ADVANCE

Type: Heart

Grant holder: Dr Paul Welsh, Dr Preiss, Professors Woodward, Chalmers and Sattar; Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow

Amount Awarded: £77,630 over two years

Year: 2013 - Finished

Cutting-edge technology is being harnessed to give a more detailed analysis of the chemical make-up of blood samples than has yet been possible. The research team has developed the ability...