Found 101 clinical trials
Thromboembolic and Bleeding Risk Stratification in Patients With Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation (FASTRHAC)
The aim of the present prospective study is to further develop and validate a composite risk score predicting both ischemic and bleeding risk, based on epidemiologic, clinical, biological, and/or morphologic complementary data. First, the investigators will assess the predictive performance of current clinical risk scores. Second, the investigators will assess …
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- 15 May, 2022
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Data Collection of Patients Admitted to the Stroke Unit
The purpose of this prospective observational study is to create a database in which data will be collected from every patient admitted to the Stroke unit and who has explicitly given his or her informed consent for this data collection. The data that will be collected are part of the …
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- 18 Jul, 2021
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HaemoDYNAMICs in Primary and Secondary Hypertension
The primary aim of the present study was to examine the haemodynamic changes in primary hypertension and secondary hypertension (renal diseases, endocrine diseases, obesity-associated hypertension) with a non-invasive haemodynamic measurement protocol utilizing radial pulse wave analysis and whole-body impedance cardiography in both supine position and during head-up tilt. For comparison, …
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- 28 Aug, 2021
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Paraoxonase and HDL Qualities in Glycaemia and Inflammation (PON1)
The incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) is significant in the super-obese and diabetics. Inflammation is believed to play an important part in the development of CHD, and the large collection of abdominal fat in the obese person is a vast source of inflammation. Diabetics have abnormal glucose and cholesterol …
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- 20 Apr, 2022
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Outcomes After Perioperative Stroke Following Cardiac Surgery
Perioperative stroke is a devastating complication of cardiac surgery that is currently poorly characterized but occurs in 1-5% of patients and is associated with poor outcomes including increased mortality. Given the uncommon nature of this complication, relatively little is known about which factors predict these outcomes among those who experience …
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- 09 Jul, 2022
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Cardiomyocyte Injury Following Acute Ischemic Stroke (CORONA-IS)
The primary goal of the CORONA-IS study is to characterize stroke-associated acute myocardial injury (elevated hs-cardiac troponin) using different diagnostic examinations in order get a better understanding of it's underlying pathomechanisms.
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- 04 Oct, 2022
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Scrub Typhus Infection Induced Cardiovascular Disease
Scrub typhus infection has been considered as seasonal and endemic infectious disorder with benign feature. However, the increasing mortality rate of scrub typhus has been recently reported in Southeast Asia and cause of death could be a fetal complicating cardiovascular disease. Therefore, the association and predictors for scrub typhus induced …
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- 27 Apr, 2022
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A Pilot Study of Carotid Ultrasound to Identify Head and Neck Cancer Survivors With High Cardiovascular Risk After Radiation Therapy
The purpose of this research study is to understand how radiation therapy may affect blood vessels in the neck called the carotid arteries. Investigators want to look at narrowing of the artery or thickening of the walls of the arteries.
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- 21 Oct, 2022
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An 18-year Follow-up Study on OSA in a Population-based Cohort
Our research team has established a polysomnography (PSG) quantified population-based paediatric sleep cohort in 2003 for a childhood OSA prevalence study. Subjects were recruited from 13 randomly selected primary schools. All subjects from this original cohort will be invited to join this 18-year follow-up study to repeat the following data …
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- 24 Nov, 2021
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At the Heart of the Matter - Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Lupus Mothers and Their Offspring
Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a high risk of placenta-mediated complications, which can lead to substantial cardiac morbidities in affected women and their offspring. In addition, maternal autoantibodies, which are actively transferred across the pla-centa during pregnancy, can affect the cardiovascular health of SLE offspring. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is …
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- 04 Oct, 2022
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