Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:31 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:31 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01344694
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients referred to cardiac CT will be the source of recruitment.
* patients with excess of visceral fat,
* 30 patients with liver fat accumulation
* 30 sex-age-matched individual (controls) will be enrolled. All patients will undergo a complete family history, personal clinical history, physical examination and blood sampling for biochemical analysis.
* Informed consent will be obtained from each individual.
Exclusion Criteria:
* subjects with severe morbid obesity (body mass index \[BMI\] \> 40),
* recent history of acute illness,
* clinical history of ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease,
* typical chest pain,
* previous coronary artery disease,
* conventional coronary angiography, percutaneous interventions, coronary by pass grafting, renal failure, cancer patients,
* subjects who take drugs that induces hepatic steatosis ( corticosteroids, estrogens, methotrexate, amiodarone and others)
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
40 Years
Maximum Age:
70 Years
Study:
NCT01344694
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01344694