Predictors of Subclinical Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases (ASCVD) in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

NCT ID: NCT03868332

Last Updated: 2019-03-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-07-20
• Study Completion Date: 2021-03-20

Brief Summary

Heart disease and failure are the major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide, despite significant advances in medical technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Cardiovascular disease may arise for various reasons including the steadily increasing incidence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, genetic, environmental, dietary and lifestyle factors. Besides all these, there is much evidence suggetsing that inflammation is an important player in the pathogenesis of heart disease, as well as atherogenesis and atherosclerosis.

Detailed Description

Heart disease and failure are the major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide, despite significant advances in medical technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Cardiovascular disease may arise for various reasons including the steadily increasing incidence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, genetic, environmental, dietary and lifestyle factors. Besides all these, there is much evidence suggetsing that inflammation is an important player in the pathogenesis of heart disease, as well as atherogenesis and atherosclerosis(1,2). Clinically, patients with rheumatologic diseases have been found to suffer from coronary heart disease; thus, regular monitoring for Cardiovascular disease should be included as a routine assessment for patients with rheumatologic diseases (3). A most common systemic inflammatory disease is inflammatory bowel disease , which is a collection of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, a chronic intestinal disease that may arise due to different factors, and is precipitated by environmental and genetic susceptibility (4,5). Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation, with gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhea, blood and pus in stools, abdominal pain, fever and weight loss. The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease is on the increase in Canada (6), Europe (7) and Asia (8

). In ulcerative colitis, inflammation is mostly limited to mucosal layer of the colon and involves rectum and other parts of colon (9). On the other hand, Crohn's disease shows characteristic transmural inflammation and fibrosis and occurs as patchy lesions throughout the gastrointestinal tract (10).

Although inflammatory bowel disease is associated with venous vascular problems such as deep venous thrombosis (11), the extent of risk for the patients with inflammatory bowel disease to develop Cardiovascular disease, in particular coronary artery disease is not well understood. inflammatory bowel disease patients have a 2 to 3-fold higher risk of venous thromboembolism than the general population (12), and this risk is high during acute disease flare, as active inflammation tilts the balance between pro-coagulants and anticoagulants, which leads to the characteristic hypofibrinolysis seen in inflammatory bowel disease (13)

Conditions

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

inflammatory bowel diease patients

No interventions assigned to this group

normal indivuals

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Patients who are diagnosed as ulcerative colitis / Crhon s disease however in activity or in remission attending the the outpatient clinics and inpatient of gastroenterology units of Internal medicine department

Exclusion Criteria

• Previous history of hypertension , diabetes mellitus, Dyslipidemia
• Previous history of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events
• Autoimmune , Neoplastic diseases
• Thromboembolic diseases

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ammar ahmed ammar

principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Hussien Ahmed EL-Amen, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Assiut University

Central Contacts

Hussien Ahmed EL-Amen, MD

Role: CONTACT

drmaam2007@gmail.com

0201004084187

Soheir Mustafa Kassem, MD

Role: CONTACT

soheir1980@gmail.com

01069347314

Other Identifiers

posacvdpwibd

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id