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

An Open Clinical Trial to Assess the Influence of Newly Prescribed Aminobiphosphonates on Arterial Stiffness (Changes of the Aortal Elasticity Due to a Newly Established Aminobiphosphinate Therapy for the Treatment of Osteoporosis)

Status

Withdrawn

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00180232

Enrollment

Registered

2005-09-16

Start date

2006-04-30

Completion date

2006-06-30

Last updated

2012-02-03

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Conditions

Arteriosclerosis, Osteoporosis

Brief summary

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

Detailed 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

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

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

Countries

Germany

Outcome results