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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON40814
NL-OMON40814
Completed
Not Applicable

The role of inflammation in myocardial infarction in young patients without risk factors: * the unhappy few* - A pilot study - - The Unhappy Few

niversitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radboud0 sites80 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Myocardial infarction
Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radboud
Enrollment
80
Status
Completed
Last Updated
2 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
2 years ago
Study Type
Observational non invasive

Investigators

Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radboud

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Twenty patients aged between 18 and 50 year, who present with an acute ST\-elevation myocardial infarction eligible for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. ;Family members:
  • Forty of their first degree healthy family members of the patients presenting with the acute myocardial infarction (two family members per patient).;Controls:
  • 20 healthy controls aged 18 years or above. Controls will be matched with the cases for age, gender and cardiovascular risk factors.

Exclusion Criteria

  • \- If the index patient (suffering from the acute myocardial infarction) has one or more of the following factors present:
  • o Age below 18 years
  • o Diagnosis of vascular disease (e.g. previous myocardial infarction, CVA, etc)
  • o Use of statins, anti\-inflammatory agents or thrombocyte aggregation inhibitors (these drugs modulate epigenetic changes in in vitro studies)
  • o Auto\-immune diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis)
  • o Coagulation disorder
  • o No living first degree family members aged 18 years or above
  • o Presence of two or more of the following risk factors:
  • § Hypertension
  • § Hypercholesterolemia

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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