Heart risk study for muscular dystrophy patients completed
NCT ID NCT00127582
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at 537 people with myotonic dystrophy type 1 to understand their risk of serious heart rhythm problems, including sudden cardiac arrest. Researchers tracked participants for two years to see how often these events happened and what factors might predict them. The goal was to improve monitoring and prevention for this condition.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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537 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2003
- Finished
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Dec 2010
- 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.
- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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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: * Patient affected by myotonic dystrophy type I (MD1). * Patient willing to provide a signed informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Age \< 18 years old or \>70 years old. * Ischemic cardiomyopathy * Cardiomyopathy due to chronic excess of alcohol consumption (\>100 g\\day) * Congenital heart disease * Acquired valvular heart disease * Metabolic cardiomyopathy: thyrotoxicosis, hypothyroidism, adrenal cortical insufficiency, pheochromocytoma, acromegaly * Familiar storage and infiltrative diseases (hemochromatosis, glycogen storage, Hurler's syndrome, Niemann-Pick disease; primary, secondary, familial and hereditary cardiac amyloidoses) * Systemic diseases (connective tissue disorder; sarcoidosis) * Peripartum cardiomyopathy
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Catholic University of Sacred Heart
Rome, 00168, Italy
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