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B -- DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES POC Johnnie Thomas, Contract Specialist, (404) 842-6766 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), intends to negotiate with and award a contract to Dr. Gerald S. Berenson of the Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health, Tulane University. The award will be made on a sole source basic for professional services to provide Bogalusa Heart Study data sets to include subjects from two generations examined longitudinally with the same data base for 1693 records divided into two cohorts (newborn and school age) Task to include cleaning, editing and merging files; extraction of requested variables and performing preliminary data analysis (maximum, minimum, means, distributions). The data is the property of the University and will be used by CDC to provide information on early natural history on Chronic Disease in a biracial population. (0238)

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