CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE RISK DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG ADULTS -ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY READING CENTER



NIH GUIDE, Volume 22, Number 1, January 8, 1993



RFP AVAILABLE:  NHLBI-HC-93-03



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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute



The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Epidemiology

and Biometry Research program, seeks an Echocardiography Reading

Center for the Coronary Artery Disease Risk Development in Young

Adults (CARDIA) project.  CARDIAs four field centers will continue to

examine and follow a total of 5000 men and women who were aged 18 to

30 years at the baseline examination in 1985 in a longitudinal study

of the evolution of coronary heart disease risk factors in young

adults.  The Echocardiography Reading Center will direct, with the

assistance of the study Steering Committee, the development of a

final protocol for repeating the echocardiographic examination in two

of the four field centers.  The protocol will perform M-mode,

2-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography.  The Echocardiography

Reading Center is the only competitive Request for Proposals (RFP)

anticipated for the CARDIA study.



This is an announcement for an RFP.  RFP NHLBI-HC-93-03 will be

available on or about December 22, 1992, with proposals due about

February 23, 1993.  One award is anticipated.  Written requests for

the RFP must include three self-addressed mailing labels and cite RFP

NHLBI-HC-93-03.



INQUIRIES



Requests for copies of the RFP are to be sent to:



Cheryl A. Jennings, Contracting Officer

Contracts Operations Branch

Division of Extramural Affairs

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Federal Building, Room 3C16

Bethesda, MD  20892



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