Active clinical trials for "Heart Diseases"

To determine the association between flavonoids intake and the prevention of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD).

To statistically examine cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in different populations based on data from studies representing national samples, cohort studies, and clinical trials.

To monitor trends in congestive heart failure in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

To examine the vagal, vascular sympathetic, and mechno-structural components of baroreflex regulation in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients and healthy age-matched controls during rest and acute laboratory stress.

To identify genes causing hypertensive end-stage renal disease (H-ESRD) in high risk African-American populations

To develop a comprehensive database publication (databook) utilizing available published and unpublished data on the prevalence of hypertension and its treatment and control in selected minority populations in the United States -- Hispanic, Asian and American Indian.

Originally from 1991 to 1991, to test the hypothesis that differences in hypertension prevalence in Nigerian workers were primarily related to differences in socioeconomic status (SES). At renewal in 1996, to determine the importance of weight gain and weight-related factors in blood pressure.

To study the personality and environmental factors that may determine the short-term and long-term sequelae of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS).

To relate distribution of adipose tissue measured by a then new imaging technique, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to extracranial carotid atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and to more conventional measures of fat distribution such as body mass index (BMI) and waist/hip ratio. The primary hypothesis was that patients with extracranial carotid atherosclerosis (cases) had more intra-abdominal fat and a higher ratio of intra-abdominal fat to total or subcutaneous fat than age-sex-race matched controls.

To develop a prototype questionnaire for the detection of angina pectoris in Blacks.