TLGS

Since our beginning in 1998, the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study, under the direction of the Research Institute of Endocrine Sciences (RIES), which founded by the Iranian National Scientific Research Council, has been committed to identifying the common cardiometabolic risk factors or characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD). TLGS have followed CVD development over a long period in two generations of participants.
An initiative by the Iranian National Scientific Research Council funded an idea to delineate the local genetic epidemiology of NCDs and their risk factors in an unprecedented manner. TLGS was the first and longest-running cohort of its sort in Iran. Initial data out of TLGS reported the characteristics of 15005 people aged over three years in a representative population of Tehranian. Additionally, the distribution and prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among the study population were characterized. This population was selected through a multistage stratified cluster random sampling technique from the population of district 13 in Tehran. In addition, TLGS gave rise to a great deal of important and highly effective initial findings on national cut-off points for various variables, information about nutrition, hypertension, dyslipoproteinemia, and metabolic syndrome. TLGS also generated information about metabolic health indicators among children and adolescents.