Active clinical trials for "Hypercholesterolemia"

Treatment of hypercholesterolemia is based on the guidelines of ESC-EAS 2011 (European Heart Journal (2011) 32, 1769-1818, ESC / EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias) These calculate the 10 year risk based on SCORE tables - Systematic COronary Risk Estimation and taking into account specific parameters in the patient's profile.

Design, refine, and pilot the two implementation approaches using behavioral economics and then seek further feedback prior to the proposed clinical trial, consistent with these recommendations. Aim 1. Co-design both implementation strategies using behavioral economics in partnership with the Family Heart Foundation and key partners from diverse backgrounds. Aim 2. Pilot strategies with 20 patients with high cholesterol and/or with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) to ascertain feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness.

This is a Pilot/ feasibility study for a population-based Screening in all children 2 to 6 years in Lower Saxony, Germany during the compulsory (U7 (from the age of 2) U7a, U8, U9) routine check-ups and any voluntary visits to the pediatricians office.

Centralized Pan-Algerian Survey on the undertreatment of hypercholesterolemia. The purpose of this study is to establish the proportion of patients on lipid-lowering pharmacological treatment reaching the LDL-C goals according to the Third Joint European Task Force guidelines in the survey population.

This study is aimed to collect the following Serbia-specific epidemiology data on hypercholesterolemia: patents characteristics, patients' management/treatment and physicians' standard practice. In addition, the aim is to determine the proportion of patients on lipid-lowering pharmacological treatment who have reached the LDL-C and HDL-C treatment goals.

This study is non-interventional study of patients who are treated with any HMGCoA reductase inhibitors (rosuvastatin, simvastatin,atorvastatin and fluvastatin) available in Bosnia and Herzegovina for at least 6 months. Data collection for each patient will take place at a single visit. The investigators will complete Case Report Form (CRF) with patient's demographic, the presence of the factors for high cardiovascular risk, current treatment, cholesterol value as well as with further treatment decision.

The survey will try to establish the proportion of patients on lipid-lowering pharmacological treatment reaching the LDL-C goals according to the third NCEP ATP guidelines, overall and by country.

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia is a rare inherited disease of metabolism. It occurs in less than 1 in 1 million people within the United States. Patients with the disease are typically children and young adults who develop heart disease early in life. Children less than age 5 years with this disease have suffered heart attacks and death. The normal process that removes cholesterol particles from the blood stream does not work in patients with this disease. It causes cholesterol to build-up in the arteries and leads to hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). The goal of this study is to detect and measure atherosclerosis in these patients before it becomes permanent and potentially life threatening. Patients with this disease can participate in this study. Researchers plan to evaluate patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia using new and standard methods for detecting atherosclerosis. Researchers plan to use information gathered during this study to develop new, promising treatments such as liver transplantation and gene therapy.

Purpose: Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a common genetic disease responsible for premature atherosclerosis. Therefore, early diagnosis and initiation of a treatment early as at the age of eight years old are recommended to reduce cardiovascular risk. Child-parent screening based on plasma LDL-cholesterol has been proposed to identify patients with hypercholesterolemia. However, in children, venipuncture is often an obstacle for screening. This study aims to evaluate the performance and feasibility of a dried blood spot collection to screen hypercholesterolemia. Method: The lipid profile of 30 healthy and 30 hypercholesterolemic patients will be determined using Dried Blood Spot (DBS) collection and veinipuncture. The study is conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The children, their parents and patients will be informed about this study according to the French bioethics law and will be included only after their agreement Hypothesis to evaluate the performance of the determination of total and LDL-cholesterol using a dried blood spot collection to screen hypercholesterolemia to evaluate the feasibility of a dried blood spot collection to screen hypercholesterolemia

This study will perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of the lipid responses to rosuvastatin and simvastatin and plasma concentrations of these two statins in a homogeneous group of Han Chinese patients.