Reducing Risk Factors in Peripheral Arterial Disease

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Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases, Peripheral Vascular Diseases

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare a health-counselor mediated telephone counseling intervention to usual care to reduce low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD).

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00217919
Run by: Northwestern University
People needed: 355
Starts: 2006-02-01
Expected to finish: 2009-11-01
Last updated by the study team: 2014-04-09

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Life expectancy greater than 1 year
Has a telephone
English-speaking
Willing to use acceptable methods of contraception
Have a primary care physician

You may not qualify if…

Currently undergoing cancer treatment or plans to begin treatment
Psychiatric illness or cognitive impairment
Intolerance to two or more cholesterol-lowering drugs
Plans to move out of the area within one year of study entry
Wheel-chair bound or unable to walk outside of home
Below- or above-knee amputation
Unstable angina
Current foot ulcers
LDL-C less than 70 mg/dl at baseline
Debilitating chronic obstructive lung disease
Major surgery within 3 months prior to study entry or plans to undergo major surgery within 1 year of study entry
Current participation in another clinical trial. A six month period will be required after completing another clinical trial before an individual can become eligible for the current trial.
Ischemic rest pain
Pregnancy or plan to become pregnant

Where it is running

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine — Chicago, Illinois, United States
University of Massachusetts Medical School — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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