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PhD project description
The arterial wall in patients with diabetes: Do changes in arterial basement membrane proteins predict future arterial disease? Are remodeling processes altered?
Applicant: Anne-Sofie Faarvang Thorsen1, MD
Main supervisor: Professor Lars Melholt Rasmussen1
Co-supervisors:
Each year in the Renal Nephrology and Transplantation Department of Grenoble Hospital treat about twenty renal transplant patients with chronic active antibody rejection. Some patients are diagnosed at a very advanced stage and will not be treated because the expected benefit is tenuous (exclusion
THE AIM
The objective of this study is to:
Study I: Compare the prevalence and complexity of coronary plaques in patients with newly discovered type-2 diabetes with a healthy control group matched for age and gender, as evaluated by coronary computed tomography angiography.
Study II: Describe the
At the screening visit, patients who fulfilled the entrance criteria and had given written informed consent entered a placebo running period where they discontinued antihypertensive medication for two weeks. During that period, Adalat 5mg could be given for emergency. At the end of placebo running
FULL PROTOCOL
1.0 SYNOPSIS The primary objective of this randomized, double blind, placebo controlled pilot study is to determine if therapies aimed at lowering LDL cholesterol (HMGCoA reductase inhibitor - simvastatin) or increasing HDL cholesterol (Niaspan) will induce regression of carotid