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Filter by:In accordance with the recently revised FDA draft renal impairment guidance (March 2010) which advises the conduct of renal impairment study in drugs that are not predominately eliminated through the renal route, the proposed study will be conducted to formally assess the pharmacokinetics (PK) of darapladib in severely renally impaired subjects. In this is an open-label, non-randomized study eight subjects with severe renal impairment will be recruited along with 8 healthy control subjects matched to the severe renal impairment subjects based on gender, body mass index (plus or minus 20%) and age (plus or minus 10 years). All subjects will receive repeat oral doses of darapladib 160 milligram (mg) for 10 consecutive days. The pharmacokinetics of darapladib and its metabolites; and safety and tolerability will be evaluated. All the subjects will be admitted to the clinic on the evening of Day -1. Subjects may check out of the clinic on Day 2 after all assessments are complete, but must return to the clinic each day (Days 3-8) for dosing and assessments. Subjects will be admitted to the clinic again on the evening of Day 9. After the last dose of the study drug, there will be a follow-up period which will include 2 visits (Day 20-24 and Day 38-52). The total study duration for each subject including the screening, treatment and follow-up periods will be approximately 11 weeks.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the antiatherogenic effect of GSPE in clinical use
NG PROMUS: A Prospective, Multicenter Trial to Assess the NG PROMUS Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System (NG PROMUS Stent System) for the Treatment of Atherosclerotic Lesion(s)
The aim of the study is to evaluate whether a low level of serum omentin-1 is associated with carotid atherosclerosis and mediated by inflammation.
Study the mechanisms of atherosclerosis based on a comparative study of physical and chemical properties of lipid tissues at various localization with subsequent development of concept of treatment and prevention.
To show the existence of a atrial cardiomyocytes membranes modification in omega-3 supplemented patients with coronary atherosclerosis.
Major vascular surgery involves operations to repair swollen blood vessels, clear debris from blocked arteries or bypass blocked blood vessels. Patients with these problems are a high-risk surgical group as they have generalized blood vessel disease. These puts them at risk of major complications around the time of surgery such as heart attacks , strokes and death. The mortality following repair of a swollen main artery in the abdomen is about 1 in 20. This contrasts poorly with the 1 per 100 risk of death following a heart bypass. Simple and cost-effective methods are needed to reduce the risks of major vascular surgery. Remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC) may be such a technique. To induce RIPC, the blood supply to muscle in the patient's arm is interrupted for about 5 minutes. It is then restored for a further five minutes. This cycle is repeated three more times. The blood supply is interrupted simply by inflating a blood pressure cuff to maximum pressure. This repeated brief interruption of the muscular blood supply sends signals to critical organs such as the brain and heart, which are rendered temporarily resistant to damage from reduced blood supply. Several small randomized clinical trials in patients undergoing different types of major vascular surgery have demonstrated a potential benefit. This large, multi-centre trial aims to determine whether RIPC can reduce complications in routine practice.
HIV-infected patients are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Large investigations support an inverse correlation between HDL-C levels and coronary heart disease. Therefore a treatment lowering HDL-C such as niacin could reduce the risk of atheroprogression not only through its benefit in terms of lipid profile, but also by reducing atherosclerotic inflammation. The study aims at showing that a therapy targeting HDL-C increase in HIV-infected patients on suppressive cART has the potential for reducing subclinical atherosclerotic inflammation associated with HIV itself in HIV-individuals on cART. NILACH is a randomised, multicenter, double blind, placebo controlled, 48 weeks trial to test the effect of the newly marketed niacin/laropiprant on carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in 90 subjects. - Regimen 1: ER niacin/laropiprant 1g/20 mg for the first 4 weeks and 2g/40mg from week 5 to the end of the study (the titration aims to reduce adverse reactions) - Regimen 2: ER niacin/laropiprant placebo p.m. The primary end point is the change in mean common carotid intima-media thickness from baseline and 48 weeks, compared between the niacin/laropiprant group and the placebo group. The proposed in vivo experiments should provide insights on the potential benefits of niacin treatment of cardiovascular disease in HIV patients. In addition, we will be able to further clarify the role of systemic inflammatory mediators in the development of early atherosclerosis of HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy. Detection and treatment of non-infectious co-morbidities such as cardiovascular diseases have become essential for HIV-infected individuals exposed to lifelong antiretroviral therapy and go beyond mere management of opportunistic infections or virologic suppression.
The study is designed to assess the effect of statin on atherosclesrosis progression as well as to explore its potential mechanism besides lipid modifying , such as effect on inflammation and vascular calcification.
The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and abdominal aortic atheromatosis (AA-At) using a hand-held ultrasound by a general practitioner in Primary Health Care.