Blood Collection for Research Related to Certain Diseases Involving Blood Vessels

Enrolling by invitation

Conditions studied: Sickle Cell Disease

In brief

The collection of human specimens from both patients and healthy volunteers is necessary for the development of laboratory assays to further basic and clinical research studies. This protocol defines the purposes for which specimens will be collected and establishes general conditions under which sample collection will be performed.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00047996

Run by

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

People needed

2000

Starts

2002-11-04

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Individuals without sickle cell disease or other chronic anemias who wish to donate blood will be excluded if the hemoglobin is less than 10 g/dL for women or less than 12g/dL for men.
• Individuals with sickle cell disease or other chronic anemias will be excluded from donating blood samples if the hemoglobin is less than 6 g/dL.
• A participant s most recent CBC result, obtained in the past 12 months, will be used to determine eligibility.
• There are no exclusion criteria for participants donating urine.

Where it is running

• National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
• INOVA Fairfax Hosptial — Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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