Acute cardiometabolic risks during treatment with haloperidol in elderly patients.
- Conditions
- side effect10012221
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON37239
- Lead Sponsor
- Tergooiziekenhuizen Hilversum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Withdrawn
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 128
- Age 70 years and older
- Admission on the department of Orthopedics or Surgery for hip fracture or other fall-related-fractures
- Exclusion within 24 hours after admission on the department
- The patient or representative speaks either Dutch or English
- Patient or representative must be able to give informed consent
- Use of an antipsychotic agent within 90 days before hospital admission
- Start or dose changes in anticoagulant drugs, drugs related to QTc-prolongation, antidiabetic, antihypertensive or cholesterol lowering drugs in the 14 days before admission
Additional for subgroup 1:
- History of a pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation, bundle branch block, congenital Qt- syndrome
- Use of QT prolongating drugs (Cert list 1 www.azcert.org) in the 14 days before admission
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>a. Serum level of fastening glucose (mmol/l).<br /><br>b. QTc-prolongation measured by (holter) ECG using Fridericia*s formula .</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>1. Serum level of triglycerides (mmol/l).<br /><br>2. Closure time (sec), measured by Platelet Functional Analyser (PFA-100).<br /><br>3. Serum concentration haloperidol (*g/L).<br /><br>4. Daily defined dose, total antipsychotic exposure in haloperidol users.<br /><br>5. Genetic polymorphisms at D2 receptor, serotonin 2c receptor,<br /><br>methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), NUBPL and NOS1AP genes. </p><br>