Status:

TERMINATED

Arm Exercise Versus Pharmacologic Stress Testing for Clinical Outcome

Lead Sponsor:

VA Office of Research and Development

Collaborating Sponsors:

VA St. Louis Health Care System

Conditions:

Veterans Referred to the St. Louis VAMC Stress Tes

Eligibility:

All Genders

21-100 years

Brief Summary

This is a 5-year clinical trial to evaluate whether arm exercise electrocardiographic (ECG) stress testing without or with coronary artery calcium scoring (-/+ CAC) is non-inferior to treadmill ECG st...

Detailed Description

Note: Recruitment is temporarily suspended because of VA-ORD moratorium due to Covid-19 pandemic. 04/01/2020 Treadmill exercise capacity and other physiologic responses to leg exercise are powerful p...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Any veteran referred to the St. Louis VA Healthcare System stress testing laboratory for a cardiac stress test

Exclusion

  • Contra-indications to stress testing such as acute coronary syndrome, uncompensated heart failure, or unstable cardiac dysrhythmias Inability to perform arm exercise stress testing
  • Contra-indications to regadenoson stress testing such as significant reversible airway disease, heart block, or low blood pressure
  • An abnormal baseline ECG (e.g. left bundle branch block, widespread ST segment depression of at least 1 mm, ventricular paced rhythm) that precludes interpretation of the stress ECG
  • Contra-indications to cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CTA) such as contrast allergies and renal dysfunction (glomerular filtration rate \< 30 ml/min)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2018

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 5 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

133 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03449888

Start Date

July 1 2018

End Date

February 5 2021

Last Update

February 17 2022

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St. Louis VA Medical Center John Cochran Division, St. Louis, MO

St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63106

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