An Open Clinical Trial to Assess the Influence of Newly Prescribed Aminobiphosphonates on Arterial Stiffness

Technische Universität Dresden

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Osteoporosis; Arteriosclerosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00180232

EK160082004

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study tries to reveal if aminobisphosphonates influence aside the bone density also the vascular status in the typical elderly patient population

Full description

The subjects - starting bisphosphonate treatment due to medical reasons - will be additionally investigated as outpatients (arterial stiffness, applanation tonometry), for each subject 3 individual dates with a duration of approx. 30 min each are scheduled, prior to therapy with bisphosphonate, after 3 and 6 month of treatment

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients starting an aminobisphosphonate therapy due to medical reasons Broca-index: between -20 and +25% who are willing and capable to confirm written consent to enrolment after ample information has been provided

Exclusion criteria

• patients with major cardiovascular disease patients participating in another clinical trial 1month prior to inclusion in this study patients unable or unwilling to give informed consent

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

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Description:

Patients starting an aminobisphosphonate therapy due to medical reasons Broca-index: between -20 and +25% who are willing and capable to confirm written consent to enrolment after ample information has been provided