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Carotid Plaque-Burden Scale and Outcomes. A Real Life Study

NCT06187532 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1004

Last updated 2024-02-12

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Summary

Carotid ultrasonography has been proposed as a tool for prediction of future cardiovascular disease (CVD). Nevertheless, its role in clinical practice remains controversial.

Methods: The investigators analyse the incidence of CVD and mortality in a cohort of 1004 participants without preexisting CVD according to a simple plaque scale recorded in different segments of the carotid artery assess by ultrasound. A prognostic tool for CV events was development adding Carotid Plaque-Burden (CPB) scale to the Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE2) table (CPB- SCORE2 scale).

Conditions

  • Atheroscleroses, Cerebral
  • Carotid Plaque

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundación para la Formación e Investigación de los Profesionales de la Salud de Extremadura

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • JUAN SANCHEZ M-TORRERO, PhD · Universidad Extremadura

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-02-02
Primary Completion
2023-04-03
Completion
2023-12-07

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