Study Roles of Heavy Metals and Essential Metal Dyshomeostasis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patients

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Diagnostic test
Study Type: Observational
SUMMARY

Investigators plan to recruit 50 PAH patients from UofL PAH Clinic, with various degrees of severity (25 intermediate risk patients and 20 high risk patients) and 10 age and gender matched controls. PAH patients are evaluated at least every 6 months by the PAH Clinic and blood/urine samples will be obtained at each office visit. Blood, plasma and urine samples will be used to measure 31 metal levels including heavy metals (cadmium, arsenic, cobalt, lead etc.) and essential metals (calcium, copper, iron, zinc, potassium etc.) by the with ICP-MS via the service of ITEMFC. Interactions among the 31 metals in PAH patients, metal concentration differences between intermediate risk PAH, high risk PAH and control groups, the correlation between metal concentrations and the etiology, severity, duration, treatment, and progression of PAH/RV dysfunction over 12 months will be analyzed by CIEHS Biostatistics and Informatics Facility Core.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: t
View:

• All patients with the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension

• Agree to the study protocol

• Healthy volunteers

• Age, gender matched controls

Locations
United States
Kentucky
University of Louisville Health
RECRUITING
Louisville
Contact Information
Primary
Jiapeng Huang, MD, PhD
jiapeng.huang@louisville.edu
5028528157
Time Frame
Start Date: 2020-12-02
Estimated Completion Date: 2029-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 110
Treatments
Control
age and gender matched controls
Pulmonary Hypertension Group
Pulmonary Hypertension Patients with Various Degree of Severity
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Jiapeng Huang

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