VascTrac Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Study

Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Peripheral Artery Disease; Intermittent Claudication

Treatments: Behavioral: Physical activity levels

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03048890

AAL0001ARG

Details and patient eligibility

About

VascTrac is a mobile medical application that tracks users' physical activity levels in order to predict endovascular failure of patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.

Full description

VascTrac uses open-source software from Apple's ResearchKit to passively track physical activity levels of users who sign up. The goal is to predict post-intervention endovascular failure before it occurs. Currently, physicians have no way of knowing when procedures such as angioplasties fail; with VascTrac, researchers hope to find downward trends in physical activity that will predict and indicate endovascular failure. All users are assigned numbers and their medical data is securely coded, decreasing the risk of promulgation of personal information.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult, has iPhone 5s, can read English

Exclusion criteria

• under 18 years

Trial design

2,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients with PAD

Description:

Patients with PAD will be in 1 cohort and will have their physical activity levels closely monitored by researchers and physicians.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physical activity levels

Patients without PAD

Description:

Patients without PAD will be allowed to contribute their data to the application, but they will not be as closely monitored.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physical activity levels