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Filter by:The purpose of the SMART-EXAM (SMart Angioplasty Research Team-Pragmatic Randomized Trial for Comparing Routine versus As-Needed EXercise or Pharmacologic Stress Testing in Asymptomatic Patients with High-Risk Coronary CalciuM) trial is to compare the major adverse cardiovascular events between routine stress testing and as-needed stress testing in asymptomatic patients with high-risk coronary calcium (Agatston Score ≥ 400) without proven ASCVD.
Background: This study aims to determine the effects of communicating genetic risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) alone or in combination with goal setting and prompts from a wearable device on objectively measured sedentary time (ST) in East Asians. It is hypothesized that this combination will lead to significant favorable changes in objectively ST, and that such changes will be more likely to be sustained over 6-month follow-up. Methods: In a parallel group, randomized controlled trial, a total 414 individuals of East Asians aged over 60years will be allocated into one of three groups: 1 control and 2 intervention groups. Blood samples will be used for estimation of CHD genetic and analysis of metabolic risk markers. Genetic risk for CHD will be estimated based on recently identified 79 SNPs (associated with CHD for East Asians) using an established methodology. Questionnaires and physical measurement will be administered at Before and after the 12-month intervention and at 6-month follow-up. Each group will receive a Fitbit device. Both intervention groups will be given CHD genetic risk estimates along with lifestyle advice but one of them will additionally use Fitbit's step-goal setting and prompt functions. The primary outcome is objectively measured sedentary time. Secondary outcomes include objectively measured MVPA, calories burned, and five intermediate metabolic risk markers (total cholesterol/HDL-C/LDL-C/triglycerides).
This study seeks to expand the use of the NYU GeriKit mobile application ("app") in a diverse range of settings to better phenotype older patients, which will enhance both research and patient care.
Multicenter, prospective, non-randomized, post-market clinical follow-up (PMCF) study to confirm and support the clinical safety and performance of Sequent Please Neo to meet EU Medical Device regulation (MDR) requirements in all the consecutive patients treated with Sequent Please Neo.
The RA-BIA Registry is a single-center observational study. The study included consecutive patients from 2008 who met inclusion criteria and were treated with RA. The main aim of the study is to assess the efficacy of rotational atherectomy.
To establish the effectiveness and tolerability of standard of care anti-anginal treatment (beta-blocker and calcium channel blocker medications) in older adults with symptomatic Stable Ischemic Heart Disease (SIHD) and multiple chronic conditions (MCC).
Prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter, open-label trial to study whether multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is superior over culprit-lesion only PCI in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and multivessel coronary artery disease.
Heart attacks caused by the complete blockage of a heart artery are treated by opening it with a stent. However, most people will also have 'non-culprit' narrowings found in their other arteries at this time. Although in general people do better if these non-culprit narrowings are also treated with stents if they look severe, this process has problems. This is because narrowings that look severe may be stable and not cause any trouble. For these people a stent is a wasted procedure and unnecessary risk. On the other hand, narrowings that are currently left alone because they appear mild, may progress and cause a heart attack. Participants who have had a heart attack will have a scan from inside the heart arteries during an angiogram (optical coherence tomography, OCT) and a magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA). If the investigators can show that it is possible to accurately predict which non-culprit narrowings are going to progress and which are going to stabilise, medical professionals may be able to better target their treatments after a heart attack.
In the field of cardiovascular medicine, there are two differing groups of patients that remain puzzling to clinicians: patients who are not expected to have coronary artery disease (CAD) yet are diagnosed with significant CAD; and those who are have multiple risk factors for CAD but do not have CAD. Bats exhibit unique phenotypes including long lifespans and likely reduced atherosclerosis. Prior work has identified multiple molecular mechanisms of suppressing the activation of inflammasomes, causally linked to atherosclerosis. The investigators hypothesize there are different molecular markers that confer protection or increased risk for CAD, some of which may be similar to bats. Thus, the aim of this study is to identify molecular markers that contribute to or are protective against acute coronary syndrome (ACS) through analyzing the genetics, peripheral blood and atherosclerotic samples from both extreme patient groups using single-cell RNA sequencing and multi-omics approach. In addition, novel anti-atherosclerotic mechanisms and factors from bat studies will be assessed in the human samples. Identification of novel targets that prevent or cause CAD has the potential to aid in the early identification of high-risk patients and development of new therapeutics to combat this growing epidemic. To conduct this study, patients who have undergone a coronary angiogram or a CT coronary angiogram that fall into the both extremes will be recruited and blood samples will be taken for the above analysis. These will be compared to a group of controls (low risk without disease and high risk with disease).
Patients with Chronic Coronary Syndrome (CCS) undergoing with elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are treated with dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), consisting of aspirin combined with clopidogrel for 6 months. The aim of DAPT is to prevent recurrent thrombotic events, i.e. death, stent thrombosis and/ or myocardial infarction (MI). However, the trade-off of thrombotic prevention by DAPT is an increased risk of bleeding. Multiple strategies to reduce bleeding risk and optimize outcomes have been proposed. On one hand the bleeding risk can be reduced by shortening the duration of DAPT and omitting aspirin. This has been proven effective in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) compared to standard DAPT, without a significant difference in thrombotic events. On the other hand, personalized medicine by means of genotyping to ensure that a patient is treated with an, for them, effective drug, can be a strategy to optimize patients outcomes. In CCS patients the preferred P2Y12-inhibitor is clopidogrel. However, clopidogrel must first be activated by the CYP2C19 enzyme in the liver. Only then can clopidogrel inhibit the P2Y12-receptor and prevent platelet activation. Almost thirty percent of patients has a genetic variation of the gene encoding this CYP2C19 enzyme. In these patients, clopidogrel is not or hardly activated, putting them at a higher risk of thrombotic events than patients who do not have this gene variation. By determining the CYP2C19 genotype, it is possible to estimate whether clopidogrel will be effective or not. In this trial the investigators evaluate the pharmacodynamic effects of genotype guided P2Y12-inhibitor monotherapy in patients with CCS undergoing PCI. In the intervention arm the CYP2C19 genotype will be assessed using a point-of-care test device on the cardiology ward, which can be performed by (research) nurses. Patients with a CYP2C19 loss-of-function (LOF) allel will be treated with monotherapy ticagrelor or prasugrel. Patients who are non-carrier of a LOF allel will receive clopidogrel. The control arm will be treated with the current standard-of-care, which is DAPT, consisting of aspirin combined with clopidogrel for 6 months. The main goals is to assess the antithrombotic effects of individualized P2Y12 monotherapy strategy versus clopidogrel plus aspirin in elective PCI patients.