The Jiri Eye Study: By the numbers

While every field trip to collect data is a busy, intense period, this trip has been a little busier than usual. In addition to collecting data, the investigative team have also submitted a couple of grant applications to the NIH (National Institutes of Health), worked on a couple of abstracts that will soon be submitted for presentation at the 2019 ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) annual meeting, and worked on revising a manuscript (after reviewer comments) that reports the genetics of glycated serum protein, a potential biomarker for glycemia, in the Jirel pedigree. Therefore, we'll have time to report on some of the interesting eye pathology observed on this trip in the coming weeks.

As the sun here in Jiri is set to rise, the research team are starting to make their final preparations for the road trip back to Kathmandu. In the meantime, we thought we'd give you a breakdown of the data collection activities here in Jiri;

3: The number of slit lamps used.
4: The number of years taken to collect the data.
8: The number of field trips to Jiri.
12: The number of sampling days per field trip.
16: The number of weeks spent in Jiri.
21: The average number of Jirels seen per day, per field trip.
96: The total number of sampling days.
255: The average number of Jirels seen per field trip.
510: The average number of Jirels seen per year.
1,123: The approximate number of Jirel females (~55%) recruited into the study.
2,042: The total number of Jirels recruited into the Jiri Eye Study - that's 102.1% of our recruitment target!
4,000: The approximate number of transfer pipettes used.
44,924: The approximate number of pages of data scanned.
180,016: Approximate number of miles traveled by the US-based team.
290,944: Approximate number of kilometers traveled by the US-based team.