Active clinical trials for "Heart Diseases"

To detect by Doppler echocardiography the incidence of cardiac abnormalities in HIV-positive patients in a prospective, longitudinal study.

To explain the extremely low cardiovascular mortality among Physicians' Health Study (PHS) participants by ascertaining all cardiovascular and total deaths among the 90,457 physicians who returned enrollment forms but were not randomized into the study. Also, to compare the mortality experience of randomized physicians with various subgroups of non-participants.

To examine the natural history of mortality due to coronary heart disease in post-myocardial infarction patients from the Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial (BHAT) and the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study (AMIS).

To prospectively examine changes in lipids, lipoproteins, and blood pressure among 295 young adults who had been followed for sixteen years in the Beaver County Lipid Study. The Beaver County Lipid Study tracked the cholesterol values of 295 children, ages 11 to 14 at baseline.

To develop an integrative predictive model of long-term quality of life in cardiovascular disease that emphasized adaptive processes and outcomes.

To perform data analyses on the familial aggregation of the stress response as it relates to hypertension.

To test hypotheses related to gender differences in cardiovascular mortality trends between 1980 and 1991 in two southeastern New England communities which were part of the Pawtucket Heart Health Program.

To document normal developmental changes in cardiac structure and function during late childhood and adolescence.

To study the causes of persistent differences in Black-white access to tertiary care cardiovascular surgical services (TCCS).

To scan the genome for obesity in a multi-ethnic sample.