Partnership Programs to Reduce Cardiovascular Disparities- Morehouse- Emory Partnership

NCT00336869 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 680

Last updated 2013-11-18

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Summary

The theme of this Morehouse-Emory Partnership Program focuses on elucidating the etiologic basis of ethnic differences in obesity-related CVD and discovering new intervention strategies to ameliorate CV health in all communities. The proposed Program uses a multi-disciplinary strategy to systematically characterize ethnic differences in obesity-related CVD by drawing upon the fields of physiology, psychology, biochemistry, vascular biology, public health, nursing and clinical medicine.

Conditions

  • Metabolic Syndrome

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH
  • Morehouse School of Medicine

    collaborator OTHER
  • Emory University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arshed Quyyumi, MD · Emory University

  • Gary Gibbons, MD · Morehouse School of Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-12-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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