Active clinical trials for "Atherosclerosis"

The effects of pactimibe versus placebo on the progression of atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries will be assessed using standard ultrasound techniques.

The main aim of this project is to demonstrate an association between gut and oral microbiota and their metabolites to carotid atherosclerosis and risk of ischemic stroke. The investigators aim to show that these metabolite levels are diet-dependent (mainly egg yalk and red meat) and associated with specific types of microbiota. The investigators to assess serum microbiota metabolite levels as a predictor of stroke and plaque progression for patients with carotid atherosclerosis.

The overall objective of this study is to characterize the prevalence and progression rate of subclinical atherosclerotic lesions and to study their association to the imaging characteristics of atheroma plaques and to the presence of genetic, epigenetic, metabolomic, and environmental factors, including dietary habits, physical activity, biorhythms, psychosocial characteristics, and exposure to environmental pollutants

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, serum concentrations and pharmacodynamic effects on serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol of single and multiple subcutaneous and intravenous doses of BMS-844421 in healthy subjects (SAD) and in subjects with elevated cholesterol (MAD).

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of testosterone deficiency in men with diabetes on atherogenesis, inflammation, cardiovascular Risk factors And adiposity .

This trial will investigate whether notifying patients and their clinicians of the presence of moderate or severe coronary artery calcium on a low-dose CT scan performed for lung cancer screening results in a lower incidence of cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke as compared with usual care informed by clinical practice guidelines.

Cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are the first and third cause of death, respectively. Cardiovascular risk is known to increase in groups with impaired lung function; however, the mechanisms behind this association are not fully understood. The aim of CaReS is to elucidate the shared pathophysiology of impaired lung function and cardiovascular risk, and to investigate the risk factors associated with them. The CaReS Cohort Study includes adults (18-80 years old) from Cartagena de Indias, a tropical city on Colombian Caribbean Coast, where recent population admixture settled a three-hybrid genetic structure (European, African and Ameridian ancestry). At baseline, the cohort will generate extensive data on -omics (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and epigenomics), socio-economic wellbeing, lifestyle, medical history, cardiometabolic, inflammatory and liver function markers, as well as objective measures of ventilatory and cardiovascular performance. The cohort will collect data every three years, for a total period of ten years. Prospective risk of cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be investigated, and their risk factors. Throughout the study period, changes in prevalence, and interactions of various risk factors with these changes will also be ascertained. A predictive risk score for cardiovascular and chronic respiratory disability will be built, using cross-sectional and longitudinal data.

Angioplasty augmented radiofrequency denervation popliteal artery, in our opinion, will remove the spasm with macro and microcirculatory blood flow, which increases revascularization patency of tibial arteries.

Patients with kidney failure on hemodialysis have an extremely high rate of cardiovascular disease including atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. This, at least in part, is due to the chronic inflammatory status usually seen in these patients. Here we try to see if treatment with extended release nicotinic acid (Niaspan) can reduce their overall inflammatory burden (in general) and the atherosclerotic plaque inflammation (in particular).

Background and purpose. Even if periprocedural cerebral microembolism associated with carotid endarterectomy or stenting usually does not manifest as clinically overt stroke, neuropsychological disturbances resulting from these events represent an important clinical and socioeconomic problem. Still, it remains unclear whether the use proximal protection can lower the incidence of cerebral embolism associated with the treatment of carotid stenosis. Materials and methods. This was a prospective randomised single-centre study, which was aimed at comparison of surgical eversion endarterectomy with stenting under proximal protection in symptomatic patients. The investigators evaluated the incidence of new ischaemic lesions revealed by the diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging 2-4 days after the treatment and neurologic events.