diabetes cardiac disease diabetes mellitus
Conditions
Interventions
Echocardiography, ECG, bloodsamples and EuroQOL
Prevention cardiac events T2DM
Sponsors
Medical university of Vienna
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Type-2 diabetes mellitus for at least six months >18 years of age men or female written informed consent to participate in the study and ability to comply with all requirements
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: maximum dose of RAS-antagonists or beta-blocker symptomatic hypotension and/or systolic blood pressure 2.5 mg/dl
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Superiority of high dose treatment with RAS-antagonists and beta-blockers compared to conventional therapy regarding the reduction of unplanned hospitalization or death due to a cardiac event in T2DM patients with a NT-proBNP > 125pg/ml. Co-primary objective Superiority of high dose treatment with RAS-antagonists and beta-blockers compared to conventional therapy regarding the reduction of unplanned hospitalization or death due to a cardiac event in T2DM patients in the whole study population | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Dependency of treatment efficacy (reduction of unplanned hospitalization or death due to a cardiac event in T2DM patients) on the NT-proBNP concentration (interaction effect between NT-proBNP concentrations and treatment). | — |
Countries
Austria, Netherlands, New Zealand
Outcome results
None listed