Intermittent claudication Peripheral artery disease
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Patients diagnosed with peripheral artery disease, both new patients and patients currently in follow-up - Patients currently using Clopidogrel - Patient provided signed declaration of consent - Patients are at least 18 years of age and compos mentis.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Use of therapeutic doses of anticoagulants (Vitamin K antagonists, DOACs or Low molecular weight heparins). - Pregnancy, oral contraceptives, or hormone replacement therapy. - Chronic inflammatory disease (e.g. RA, CU, MC). - Anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS). - Active malignancy.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number and type of atherothrombotic events: CAD, MI, stroke, limb ischemia, and re-vascularisation, all-cause and cardio-vascular mortality (within 1 year of inclusion into the study). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The difference between patients that experienced event(s) within 1 year of inclusion into the study and those that did not for 1) coagulation and inflammation profile (levels of D-dimer, Thrombin-Antithrombin, Thrombin generation, FIX-AT complexes, P-selectin, TNF-, Fibrinogen, CRP, V-CAM, I-CAM, CD40, IL1-, IL8, IL10), 2) the difference in platelet reactivity, 3) the difference in adherence rate, and 4) the sensitivity and specificity of a (newly developed) functional assay. Other study parameters: Smoking status, age, gender, BMI (height, weight), diabetes, time since diagnosis, extent of disease (mild/moderate, severe PAD), blood pressure, kreatinin and estimated kreatinin clearance, blood glucose, HbA1c, lipid profile (LDL, HDL, cholesterol, triglycerides), concurrent medication. | — |
Countries
Netherlands