Understanding Environmental Exposures and Your Health

This observational study aims to understand how everyday environmental factors like pollution, diet, and stress affect your body and contribute to diseases like inflammation or metabolic conditions. Researchers want to collect biological samples (like blood, hair, or saliva) and health information from up to 2000 adults to learn more about these connections. This study is not testing a specific treatment, but rather observing how your body responds to your environment over time. To join, you need to be between 18 and 90 years old, speak English, and be willing to share your health information and samples. The study is currently ongoing, meaning they are still collecting information.

Study design
This is an observational study, meaning researchers will collect information and samples without giving any specific intervention. Up to 2000 participants will be included.
What's involved
You will be screened with questions about your health history and medicines. You may be asked to provide samples such as blood, hair, stool, saliva, and/or urine.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
The primary endpoint (what researchers are looking for) is measured on an ongoing basis, suggesting continued observation.

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NCT04888923

Natural History of the Human Biological Response to Environmental Exposure and Injury

Recruiting
Not specifiedAges 18–90Observational
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
~2,000 participants
Updated 2026-08-28 on ClinicalTrials.gov

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
To identify the interaction of host and environmental factors in the response to injury and the development of disease.
Measured over On-going
Inflammation
Normal Controls
Metabolic Disease
1 sites across 1 states
North Carolina1
  • Lawrence S Kirschner, M.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
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  • To identify the interaction of host and environmental factors in the response to injury and the development of disease.On-going

    To identify the interaction of host and environmental factors in the response to injury and the development of disease.