A study on development of cost-effective disease diagnosis technology
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Patients with thyroid symptoms in fluoride endemic areas. Patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/03/012695
- Lead Sponsor
- Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients with known or suspected thyroid abnormalities and skeletal fluorosis.
For the patients with acute coronary syndrome, inclusion age is 18 and above, both males and females.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients below the age of 6 years and pregnant woman are excluded for thyroid study. Patients identified with Hashimoto thyroiditis will also be excluded from the thyroid study.
For heart study, patients with renal failure will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method nderstand thyroid dysfunction in fluoride endemic areas. <br/ ><br>Understand nexus between depression and cardiac function. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: For thyroid study, from the date of enrollment, sampling will be done once every 3 months, four times during the year. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>For the heart study, sampling will be done four times - at the time of admission, at discharge, 1st and 6th month after the medical intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hand-held device for disease diagnosisTimepoint: 4 years