United Coronary Biobanks (UNICORN)

UMC Utrecht

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Stable Angina; Acute Coronary Syndrome; Myocardial Infarction

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02126150

11-183

Details and patient eligibility

About

The UNICORN consists of two collaborating biobanks, one in Utrecht and one in Singapore. From these two sites we include all patients who undergo a coronary catheterization for any reason.

At the moment of catheterization we draw blood, which will be stored in a biobank and we collect clinical characteristics. Patients are followed-up for 5 years for the occurrence of major cardiovascular events.

By including from two sites in the world we include 4 major ethnic groups: Caucasians, Chinese, Indians and Malays. We aim at including at least 2000 patients per ethnic group.

Our hypothesis is that there are differences in the risk factor burden, clinical presentation of CAD, and biochemical patterns in the blood among the ethnic groups.

Furthermore, this biobank offers a platform for multi-ethnic biomarker discovery.

Enrollment: 2,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing coronary angiography

Exclusion criteria

• < 21 years of age
• Hemoglobin levels <7 g/dL in women, or hemoglobin levels <8 g/dL in men

Trial design

2,000 participants in 1 patient group

Ethnicity