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Improving Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Using Hand Held Carotid Ultrasonography Study

NCT00574457 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 355

Last updated 2015-10-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

1\) Research questions:

1a. Can non-sonographer health care professionals in a community medical office practice setting be trained to detect and evaluate subclinical atherosclerosis?

1b. Can carotid ultrasound performed in community office practices improve physician use of evidence-based, risk-reducing interventions and patient motivation to adhere to therapeutic recommendations?

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Carotid Ultrasound

All subjects that meet the inclusion criteria at each certified site will be invited to participate and go through the same intervention (questionaire-scan-post scan questionaire and 1 month follow up questionaire)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • James H Stein, MD · University of Wisconsin Medical School and Public Heath

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

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