Prognosis in the Elderly Chinese: the Northern Shanghai Study

Prognosis Factors of Mortality and Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly Chinese: the Northern Shanghai Study

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02368938

Acronym

NSS

Enrollment

5000

Registered

2015-02-23

Start date

2014-08-31

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-02-23

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Conditions

Cardiovascular Risk Factor

Keywords

Cardiovascular risk factors, Prospective study, Mortality, Cardiovascular events, Asymptomatic target organ damage, elderly Chinese

Brief summary

The Northern Shanghai Study is a prospective community-based study, which is aimed to investigate the prognostic factors, including conventional cardiovascular risk factors and asymptomatic target organ damage, for mortality and cardiovascular diseases, in 5,000 elderly Chinese.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

65 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

1. age≥65 years old(depending on identity card); 2. informed consent should be signed voluntarily; 3. the individuals are long-term residents in northern Shanghai.

Exclusion criteria

1. is diagnosed serious heart disease (NYHA\>IV) or end stage renal disease (CKD \> 4); 2. suffered with cancer and life expectancy was less than 5 years; 3. has stroke within 3 months; 4. is not willing to participate in the clinical study; 5. suffered with other disease to quite the trial; 6. violated the protocol; 7. lost contact with laboratory staff.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular events	one year
Cardiovascular diseases	one year

Outcome results