Diabetes, Lipoproteins and Accelerated Vascular Disease
Completed
Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Diseases, Coronary Disease, Atherosclerosis, Carotid Artery Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Non-insulin Dependent, Diabetes Mellitus
In brief
To better understand the excess cardiovascular disease associated with diabetes mellitus.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00005479
- Run by
- Columbia University
- People needed
- 164
- Starts
- 1996-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-12-28
Who can join
Age: 35 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), defined by medical record diagnosis, fasting glucose >140 mg/dl, or the use of diabetes medications
- Had a myocardial infarction (MI) any time in the past, a coronary angiogram within the previous year, or an exercise perfusion scan (stress thallium study) within one year
- Patients with CAD group, defined by the following criteria: documented prior MI, PTCA/stent, CABG, or >75% stenosis in any vessel by coronary angiography.
- Patients without CAD group, defined as: the absence of a prior MI and <50% stenosis in all vessels by coronary angiography within the past year, or the combination of a normal exercise perfusion scan and the absence of a prior MI or any interventional cardiac procedures.
You may not qualify if…
- MI or cardiac procedures within the past 3 months
- Diagnoses of cancer, severe congestive heart failure (ejection fraction < 20%), kidney or liver disease, pancreatitis, other gastrointestinal conditions,
- Laboratory values of creatinine levels > 1.3, abnormal liver function tests, abnormal CBC, fasting TG > 400 mg/dl, urine protein > 2+ on urinalysis or > 1000 mg/24 h, abnormal thyroid function tests, body mass index (BMI) > 34 for men and > 37 for women or BMI < 20 for both sexes
- Age < 35 or > 75 years
Where it is running
- Columbia University — New York, New York, United States
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