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Cohort Study of Heart Rate Variability

NCT00005399 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 111654

Last updated 2016-04-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To examine factors affecting heart rate variability (HRV) and the role of HRV in heart disease. Specifically, to examine the role of HRV: as a predictor of fatal and nonfatal ischemic heart disease over a six year follow-up of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) population based, bi-ethnic cohort; on the six year progression of carotid atherosclerosis measured by B-mode ultrasound; and on the incidence of hypertension. Also, to study the effect of elevated fasting insulin, glucose, diabetes mellitus, and other metabolic abnormalities on changes in HRV over nine years of follow-up.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

No interventions

No interventions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gerardo Heiss · University of North Carolina

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1996-08-31
Primary Completion
2001-06-30
Completion
2001-06-30

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