UAB uses mobile clinic to examine disease risk of rural Southerners

The Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Study, or RURAL Study, will allow researchers to learn what causes the high burden of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders in Southern rural communities. It will recruit 4,600 multi-ethnic participants from 10 rural counties in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. In Alabama, the study will recruit 1,100 participants from Dallas and Wilcox counties, which experience higher rates of heart and lung disease than other counties in the state.

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