2016 BWH/Harvard Crohn’s & Ulcerative Colitis study to begin in November
In 2011 Dr. Josh Korzenik, The Director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), one of the leading IBD researchers in the country, and his team conducted a study of Northport residents through health questionnaires and medical record confirmations. He discovered a health cluster of Northport residents with either ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease that was 10 to 15 times higher than national standards. This was one of the largest health clusters of these illnesses he has ever seen.
The causes, and a cure, for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease have long baffled the scientific community. Northport’s historical exposure to specific heavy metal toxins may be a contributing factor to the abnormally high number of residents with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
Dr. Korzenik is moving forward next month with a new epidemiological case-control study of Northport residents; focusing on a possible correlation to chronic exposure to heavy metals triggering ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
In March I asked for volunteers for this new study. Participants needed are residents diagnosed with either Crohn’s or Colitis, as well as residents who do not have either of these illnesses (a control group). I received many volunteers to participate. Thank you! However, I do not want to miss anyone who may want to participate in this ground breaking study.
If you have not already contacted me* to volunteer and you are willing to participate in this study, both diagnosed residents and non diagnosed residents, please e-mail me as soon as possible. The study begins in the next two weeks.
Contact Info: jamie_paparich@hotmail.com or northportproject@hotmail.com
* If you are not sure if you contacted me already please feel free to e-mail again!
The study is simple, and will take only a few minutes of your time. You will be contacted by the research team, either by telephone or e-mail depending on your preference, to give your consent to participate in the study. A questionnaire and a kit including scissors and nail clippers to obtain hair and nail samples will be sent to your home. You will then send the packet back to the researchers, and the assays will be done at their lab.
Thank you so much to the community for your amazing support in volunteering for this much needed study!
THE NORTHPORT PROJECT 
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