Elaine - Interview 04  

Elaine - Interview 04

Age at Interview: 49
Sex: Female
Background: works as a healthcare assistant. She is married with two sons aged 17 and 22. Ethnic background: white British.

Brief outline:Elaine has taken part as a healthy volunteer in several diabetes and metabolism research studies, where she has given blood and tissue samples. Healthy volunteers help researchers understand how influences such as diet and weight interact with our genes.

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Elaine - Interview 04
Elaine describes the process of giving a blood sample as a healthy volunteer in a diabetes study.

 



Yes, I think they need, because some of the tests have, sometimes you go along and you have to fast in the morning, and they take blood samples, they set up a cannula in your arm, so obviously they’re not just constantly, you know, putting needles in, but they put a cannula in and they take blood every so often. And then halfway through the actual testing they’ll then say, “Could you have this sugary drink?” which isn’t the nicest tasting drink but it’s all right, and maybe you’ll get something to eat as well, and then they take more blood samples. And it’s to see how - I think it’s to see how, you know, your blood supply, you know, goes to like to the fat tissue round your stomach and, you know, all that kind of thing. I mean, I don’t know enough about it, but yeah, so—
 
Yeah, so they want to...
 
They need help, they obviously can’t do that with people who are diabetic.
 
No.
 
But they need people who are healthy and don’t have diabetes, to see how the body reacts.

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