Bath Psoriatic Arthritis Biobank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  251102

• Research summary

  The Bath Psoriatic Arthritis Biobank

• REC name

  South West - Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  18/SW/0226

• Date of REC Opinion

  14 Jan 2019

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Demographic information (including GP details, ethnicity, age, education,employment, gender)

  Clinical assessments (including symptoms, other diagnosis, x-rays, MRI, past medical history, medications, disease activity, symptom onset)

  Family history

  Blood samples (Serum / DNA / Plasma)

  Patient reported questionnaires (including pain, fatigue, work, comorbidity and quality of life and exercise)

  Additional health risks (fractures and osteoporosis etc), and other relevant clinical information (including previous treatment).

  Informed consent will be taken in writing and stored in secure research facility and in patients' notes.

• Research programme

  Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis can develop profound symptoms in their joints, tendon attachments, skin, nails and spine, that may limit mobility and quality of life. We would like to better understand why some patients develop these specific manifestations and have a worse prognosis, while others do not and have a relatively mild disease course. Using blood biomarkers is a promising way of learning more about the disease process.

• RTBTitle

  The Bath Psoriatic Arthritis Biobank

• Establishment organisation

  Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust

• Establishment organisation address

  Upper Borough Walls

  BA1 1RL