NCT01564485

Cardiac CT's Role in Asymptomatic Patients With Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

Role of Cardiac CT in Risk Factor Control in Asymptomatic Patients With Diabetes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 193 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study looked at the role of cardiac CT in improving risk factor control in those with diabetes.

Detailed description

This study examined whether doing a cardiac screening test, the cardiac CT, would result in patients paying more attention to controlling their risk factors.

Conditions

• Diabetes
• Metabolic Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Cardiac CT	A cardiac CT involves a non-invasive test of the coronary arteries.
BEHAVIORAL	Usual medical care	Patients would be treated by their primary care physicians with usual medical care with drugs such as lipid lowering medication, blood pressure lowering medications, and blood glucose lowering medications. The study will not specify which drugs to use and will it up to the individual physician's discretion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2012-03-27
• Last updated: 2021-06-08
• Results posted: 2021-06-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study