Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02775279
Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome
Short Telomere Length in Peripheral Blood Leukocyte Predicts the Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 400 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Air Force Military Medical University, China · Academic / Other
- Sex
- —
- Age
- 18 Years – 85 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Compelling epidemiological evidence indicates that alterations length of telomere, are associated with the initiation and development of ischemic heart disease. This study was undertaken to investigate whether mtDNA copy number in peripheral blood leukocyte could be used as a risk predictor for acute coronary syndrome.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-05-01
- Completion
- 2016-05-01
- First posted
- 2016-05-17
- Last updated
- 2016-05-17
Locations
1 site across 1 country: China
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