50,000 scans, one goal: mapping how genes and environment shape heart and lung disease
NCT ID NCT06894095
First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last updated Oct 16, 2026
Summary
Researchers are building a large database that combines heart and lung imaging, genetic and molecular profiles, living environment details, and health records from adults who had a coronary CT scan. The study follows participants for up to 30 years to track heart attacks, strokes, deaths, and other cardiovascular events. By connecting these layers of data, the team aims to understand how genes and environment interact to drive heart and lung disease and to find better ways to prevent it.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If the registry links genes, living conditions, and imaging to heart and lung disease, it could reveal new targets for prevention and earlier treatment.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational registry, so it can show patterns and associations but cannot prove that any one factor causes disease. Findings may take many years and may not apply to other populations.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 50,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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May 2023
- Expected to finish
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May 2038
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Consecutively enrolled individuals scheduled for coronary CTA, including those with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) or individuals undergoing screening
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged ≥18 years * Coronary CT angiography performed * Informed consent acquired Exclusion Criteria: * Unable to complete the follow-up * Serious chronic kidney disease (eGFR\< 30 ml/min/1.73 m2) * Serious liver disease or dysfunction (chronic active hepatitis and cirrhosis, or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine transaminase (ALT) \> 3 times the upper limit of normal) * Not appropriate to be tested due to birth planning, allergies, acute thyroid storm, etc. * Suspected or known infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and Treponema pallidum (syphilis), etc.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
3 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Longjiang Zhang
RECRUITINGNanjing, Jiangsu, 210002, China
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Longjiang Zhang
RECRUITINGSuqian, Jiangsu, 223800, China
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Longjiang Zhang
RECRUITINGZhenjiang, Jiangsu, 212001, China
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