View clinical trials related to Carotid Intima- Media Thickness.
Filter by:The purpose of this randomized controlled field trial is to determine whether a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove and fuel distribution intervention reduces personal and kitchen exposure to household air pollutants and improves cardiopulmonary health outcomes when compared to usual cooking practices with open-fire biomass-burning stoves in adult women aged 25-64 years.
One hundred Spanish postmenopausal women accepted to be investigated for cardiovascular risk actors including clinical features, serum biochemical parameters, single nucleotide polymorphisms for estrogen receptor, and imaging parameters, carotid intima-media thickness (91 women) and coronary computed tomography (32 women). Multivariable analysis confirmed that both age and glucose level directly affected IMT. Estrogenic exposure, as measured by the allele associated with lower expression of the ER beta gene, was protective at the sinus and the wall. Findings at the coronary arteries, either moderate or high calcium index (CAC) and/or significant lumen stenosis were sporadic and did not allow for establishing association with any of the variables assessed.
This non-interventional, prospective, multi-centric, cross-sectional study is aimed to obtain the distribution of measurements of CIMT in Indian subjects and will involve approx. 30 investigative sites from all over the country. Each investigative site will be expected to enrol 50 subjects and Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) values will be taken for each individual as described in the protocol. All the procedures could be completed in a single day, however due to any reason any study variable is not taken subject may be asked to come back for a second visit within 7 days of the first visit.