The Salford Kidney Study biobank contains samples and data from 3,850 prospectively followed patients with consent for external collaboration for clinical data sharing, plasma and serum biomarker analysis and genomic studies.
The main cohort is of non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (3,600) and there is a sub-collection of 220 haemodialysis patients with annual detailed cardiovascular investigations.
All phenotypic, laboratory and adjudicated event data is available and there are 65,000 plasma/serum aliquots stored at -80C.