Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is Heart Niagara's main research focus?
2. In what areas of research could Heart Niagara data be useful?
3. What is the Heart Niagara Research Program?
4. How many participants are involved in your research?
5. Do you have any publications?
6. How accurate is a non-fasting cholesterol test?
7. How do I apply to be part of the Heart Niagara Research Program?
8. Can I download a copy of the questionnaire?
1. What is Heart Niagara's main research focus?
Our primary research area is adolescent lifestyles and cardiovascular health.
2. In what areas of research could your data be useful?
Due to the vast amount of information collected from a large population of adolescents, our data is useful in areas including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, adiposity, smoking tobacco, high cholesterol and physical inactivity. There is a very good potential to do longitudinal research with multiple cohorts.
3. What is the Heart Niagara Research Program?
The Heart Niagara Research Program supports over 25 researchers, over 300 physicians and nurse practitioners, over 12, 000 elementary and secondary students and their families, over 200 teachers and four school boards devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical research to reduce heart disease, chronic disease and cancer. Research is organized by nine research program areas: heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, adiposity, smoking tobacco, high cholesterol and physical inactivity.
4. How many participants are involved in your research?
Each year, the Healthy Heart Schools' Program sees over 4,000 grade nine students (see most recent annual summary). To date, there are over 20,000 participants have contributed data in this program.
5. Do you have any publications?
Heart Niagara has many publications in journals, conference posters and conference oral presentations. Please have a look at our research publications timeline and publications reference list.
6. How accurate is a non-fasting cholesterol test?
The cholesterols are assessed using the Cholestech LDX System (www.cholestech.com). Please click here for a technical bulletin regarding equipment accuracy and the slides from a presentation done at the 2011 National Obesity Summit.
7. How do I apply to be part of the Heart Niagara Research Program?
All tenured or tenure-track university faculty with an interest in health are invited to become Associates of the Heart Niagara Research Program, on the basis of having submitted a research plan to the Program. The Program recognizes that health research addresses many risk factors and many disease processes from the same data pool, and that researchers may have varying needs for their area of interest. The Heart Niagara Research Program expects that research plans will take a variety of approaches, some consisting of letters of intention with respect to short term projects (months), while others involving questions that can only be answered with longitudinal projects. The Heart Niagara Research Program expects that all researchers work co-operatively while maintaining their competing interests. Application deadlines for Heart Niagara Research Program Associate status are May 31 and November 30 each year. The application process consists of forwarding a completed application form and a current C.V. to the Membership Committee of the Heart Niagara Research Program, in care of the Program Manager, Heart Niagara Research Program.
8. Can I download a copy of the questionnaire?
Please do:
Grade 5 questionnaire booklet
Grade 7 questionnaire booklet
Grade 9 questionnaire booklet
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