Improving Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Using Hand Held Carotid Ultrasonography Study
Completed · Phase 4
Conditions studied: Atherosclerosis, Stroke
In brief
1\) Research questions: 1a. Can non-sonographer health care professionals in a community medical office practice setting be trained to detect and evaluate subclinical atherosclerosis? 1b. Can carotid ultrasound performed in community office practices improve physician use of evidence-based, risk-reducing interventions and patient motivation to adhere to therapeutic recommendations?
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00574457
- Run by
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- People needed
- 355
- Starts
- 2007-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-10-01
Who can join
Age: 40 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Informed written consent from the subject prior to testing.
- Age ≥40 years old with at least 1 of the following risk factors for coronary artery disease.
- cigarette smoking
- diabetes mellitus
- hypertension (systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg or taking antihypertensive medication)
- hyperlipidemia (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≥130 mg/dl or high-density lipoprotein cholesterol less than 40 mg/dl)
- family history of CV disease in a male first-degree relative <55 or a female first-degree relative <65 years old
You may not qualify if…
- Age >70 years
- Use of cholesterol-lowering medications in the past year
- Known active liver disease (AST or ALT >2x upper limit of normal in home lab)
- Known active thyroid disease (TSH outside normal limits in home lab)
- Uncontrolled hypertension (blood pressure >180/100 mmHg)
- Chronic kidney disease (on dialysis or known creatinine >2.5 mg/dL)
- History of coronary artery disease (previous myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization procedure, angina pectoris with documented ischemia)
- History of cerebrovascular disease (previous stroke, transient ischemic attack, or carotid revascularization procedure)
- History of peripheral arterial disease (claudication with abnormal ankle-brachial indices or previous revascularization procedure)
Where it is running
- Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, S.C. — Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, United States
- Mercy Clinic East — Janesville, Wisconsin, United States
- ProHealth Care Medical Centers — Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States
- Turke Family Medicine S.C. — Watertown, Wisconsin, United States
- Moreland Family Medicine Associates, S.C. — Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
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