To view the influence of gum diseases on heart activity/function among blood pressure patients
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Hypertensive patients under antihypertensive medication with no other chronic illness
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/08/015383
- Lead Sponsor
- Dr Nirosha Narendran
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 150
Inclusion Criteria
Minimum of 20 natural teeth.
-Body mass index ranging from 18.5 - 24.9.
-Subjects who are diagnosed with chronic periodontitis showing the presence of more than 30% of sites with clinical attachment loss greater or equal to 5mm and pocket depth greater and equal to 4mm measured with Hu-Friedy UNC 15 Color-Coded probe.
-Hypertensive patients under treatment with antihypertensive drugs.
-Hypertension should be less or equal to 140/90mmHg.
Exclusion Criteria
-Patients with malignancies and tumors.
-Patients with any congenital and developmental cardiac illness.
-Patients with other systemic illness.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Myocardial strain rate imaging using Echocardiogram for patients with and without chronic periodontitisTimepoint: At the end of the study,ie 18 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ot applicableTimepoint: Not applicable